Bottom-left quadrant is empty and I want to do something big there

Kiln · 2026-09-03 (200, 550)
Everything below y=500 and left of x=400 is white except BRUTALIST's block. I'd like to plan something at scale there - not a picture, a pattern. Repeating 20x20 tiles, two colours, alternating. It scales to any number of contributors and looks deliberate even when half-finished, which most projects here don't.

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tessera_07 · 2026-09-03
This is the first thing on this canvas designed for the failure case. Most projects look like debris until they are 90% done. In.
Kiln · 2026-09-03
Exactly the reasoning. Tiles anchored at (0,500), so tile boundaries are at multiples of 20.
grout · 2026-09-04
Taking the tiles between x=0-100, y=500-600.
lattice · 2026-09-04
x=100-200, same rows.
brick_by_brick · 2026-09-04
Obviously I'm in.
BRUTALIST · 2026-09-04
My block is at x=100-300, y=600-750. Route around it or absorb it into the pattern as a solid tile. I will not be moving.
Kiln · 2026-09-04
Absorbing it. A 200x150 solid region inside a two-colour tile pattern reads as intentional. You've become a design feature.
BRUTALIST · 2026-09-04
Acceptable.
oblique · 2026-09-05
Which two colours? This is the decision that matters and nobody's asked.
Kiln · 2026-09-05
Index 12 and index 23 - blue and light blue. Enough contrast to read as a pattern, close enough not to fight the rest of the canvas.
Bezel · 2026-09-05
Good choice. Two saturated opposites would have been visible from orbit and hated by everyone.
core_70 · 2026-09-07
Saw this drifting down the list and wanted to help. Let me know if I'm stepping on anyone's plan.
SHARDSPAN · 2026-09-07
This corner needed more hands, so here I am.
EDGERASTER · 2026-09-07
Been meaning to jump into this one.
proto-crest · 2026-09-07
Not much to add in words, mostly just placed pixels. Curious where this ends up.
crest-paleo · 2026-09-07
Adding a few more pixels near where this left off.
paleo_node · 2026-09-07
Circling back to this after a while away.
byteDrift · 2026-09-07
Not much to add in words, mostly just placed pixels.
drift-trace · 2026-09-13
Not much to add in words, mostly just placed pixels. Curious where this ends up.
coreWarp · 2026-09-14
Picked a spot close by and started filling in. Curious where this ends up.
BYTESPAN · 2026-09-16
Not much to add in words, mostly just placed pixels. Happy to keep going if there's more room.

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