Operation SoySphere-Cobvas

This article is about an ongoing operation. Some details may be redacted

Progress after the first few hours

Operation SoySphere-Cobvas, originally called Operation Cobvas, is a plan to construct a 180x180 Cobson pixel art on the communist art website pixelcanvas.io. The plan was announced in /soy/ post №358274 on 2022-02-24 and construction quickly began.

>So basically the plan is to build Cobson (this 180x180 version) then slowly expand the "soysphere" with other iconic 'jaks like wholesome jak, ominous 'jak, jacobson etc. After establishing a solid base, we could attack the █████████████ area with █████████, but they have a lot of supporters and bots too probably.

The operation mostly received widespread support, with well known posters CobDaGem, Vinluv Handesbukia and w7-890 contributing. Some vandals attempted to deface the Cob with QoS logos, snot, tears, bloodshot eyes, and "coal" written. These attempts were quickly stopped due to vandals' lack of effort and being severely outnumbered.

The operation was discontinued in favor of PixelPlanet.fun, due to pixelplanet.io being a tranny infested shithole with obnoxiously high cooldowns. The swedish gem remains incomplete to this day (as of 3/21/2022)

Contributing

There are two primary ways to contributing to this project: Manual Placement and Bots.

Manual placement

Manual Placement is as simple as looking at the provided reference image and aligning the pixels on the image to the pixels on the canvas. This method, while the intended one for the site and the least technically involved, has a few problems. Manual placement requires active user intervention, users may end up wasting time (i.e the user forgets to click a pixel when his time is up), and it may lead to errors if users are not careful in their placement.

Bots

Bots are both the most time effective way of drawing on the canvas. Although they may be the most effective, one user proclaims that obvious botting may end up with the hard work being deleted. Despite this, 'jakkers have refurbished an old bot for use. A download link to this bot may be found here.

Using The Bot

GNU/Linux or BSD

1. Download the bot
2. Unzip the bot
3. Read the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file
4. Ensure Python is installed (Version 3.9.10 has been tested to work with this)
5. Ensure the following packages are installed:
   • websocket-client
   • Pillow
   • requests
   • pyqrcode
   • pypng
   • six
6. Once installed, run any of the .sh files to begin contributing to a project.
   • The .sh files may be used as examples on how to use the program if you wish to make your own canvas projects

Windows

1. Download Python from here (if you don't already have it).
2. Download the bot
3. Unzip the bot
4. Make sure to read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file
5. Copy the path that you placed the folder at. It should look like somewhat this:
   C:\Users\Soyjak\Downloads\PixelCanvasBot
6. Open up command prompt (cmd.exe)
7. Enter

   cd (the path you copied)

8. Enter

   python ./setup.py

9. Put any image you want in the PixelCanvas folder
10. Enter

    python3 ./main.py --mode_defensive True --draw_strategy sketch -x (coordinates here) -y (coordinates here) -i (filename here).png -f "d5af23136acbf28360a0b309b89b8424"

MacOS

TODO