Name: SwarmSketch

Is collective cumulative design a generative technique? Instead of building a multi-agent simulation, why not use (ahem) real agents? Peter Edmunds’ SwarmSketch is the latest example of this genre, trying to make drawings from the collective consciousness. It takes a “topic” for a sketch from an RSS feed of popular web searches, then allows users to draw one line each. After doing your bit you get to “edit” the sketch by voting on the opacity of others’ lines. Early days yet but could be interesting, with some traffic…