Imagination 3 (pronounced “Imagination Cubed”, as far as i can tell) is a really cute collaborative art tool that I discovered by way of Gizmodo today. Basically, it allows up to three people to all draw at the same time, regardless of where they are in the world. It’s very similar to Yahoo Messenger’s Doodle IMvironment, although it improved on a lot of the things that made that tool cumbersome to use, namely that you both have to be using YM, and that you have to squeeze your drawing into a space about the size of a business card. Oh, and Imagination3 actually records your movements, instead of just the finished output, so you can playback the entire session, in case there were some good bits that you forgot to take note of.
The only problem I noticed was that the very noticeable lag prevents you from drawing very accurately, but it’s still a ton better than, say, describing something over the phone. That said, if you really wanted a serious drawing app with collaborative capabilities, you’d probably be better off paying a hundred bucks for Corel Grafigo, instead of roughing it with a web-based freebie.