Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week.

After covering 2 websites that have drawing and sketches as the main subject – Scribble and iSketch – it is time to go on with the 3rd which corresponds to SwarmSketch.

Like the title suggests, SwarmSketch is a website for the masses. Each visitor can draw a line related to the subject of the week, this week is the iPhone as you can clearly see on the image.

After making that single line, the visitor can afterwards vote for the opacity of other lines, for example, if you feel there is a sketch on the drawing that doesn’t make any sense you can just put the opacity to zero percent, submit it, and the line will “disappear” if other voters share the same feeling as you.

So far this iPhone has 529 sketches and 5,863 opacity votes; each line is voted an average of 11 times and gets 51% of opacity. Interesting numbers that in the end make up for the whole picture.

There is a big gallery (with 150 drawings) you can browse and the best thing to do is view the history animation of some drawings, seriously, it is amazing!

SwarmSketch was developed by Peter Edmunds as part of an honours project at the University of Canberra.

Visit SwarmSketch.

PS – It is much easier to check the meaning of a specific drawing if you see the thumbnail instead of the whole image.

Screenshot of the gallery:

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