{"slug": "splash-canvas", "title": "Splash Canvas", "summary": "Google Arts & Culture creator David Li launched Splash Canvas, a digital painting experiment where users drag octopus or squid characters across a canvas to create art, with each character offering unique styles and playful critiques. The project uses a novel GPU fluid simulation, Gemini-powered dialogue, and procedural audio, and includes turtles that smudge or erase the artwork.", "body_md": "Drag an octopus or squid across the canvas to paint! Each has a unique style and will offer playful critiques or fun insights. Beware the turtles: Smudge blends your work, while Scrape erases it.\n\nCreated by David Li, this squishy digital experiment explores surreal, playful interactions. It utilizes a novel GPU fluid simulation, Gemini-powered character dialogue (synthesized via Chirp 3), and procedural audio by Chris Heinrichs. Li is also the creator behind Google Arts & Culture favorites Viola the Bird and Blob Opera.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/splash-canvas", "canonical_source": "https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/vQFCtQB7FDnYkA", "published_at": "2026-07-01 08:08:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-01 08:19:47.503162+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["David Li", "Google Arts & Culture", "Gemini", "Chirp 3", "Chris Heinrichs", "Viola the Bird", "Blob Opera"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/splash-canvas", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/splash-canvas.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/splash-canvas.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/splash-canvas.jsonld"}}