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Where would you get the images? Just generate them randomly?
by epi0Bauqu 18y ago
Where would you get the images? Just generate them randomly?
- petercooper 18y agoIdenticons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon
- rplevy 18y agoThe only problem with identicons I have seen is that the algorithm used causes a majority of them to look like swastikas. But that seems like an easy thing to fix. Most of the identicons are quite pretty (including a large number of swastikas), but most people still associate swastikas with naziism.
- petercooper 18y agoSwastikas aside, I don't personally feel they're a good solution. They can be useful in semi-anonymous situations to determine one person from another (or an impostor posing as someone else), but I don't find them even vaguely recognizable from one another in the most case. They're very easily confusable.
- bct 18y agoNot only did the Nazis ruin an ancient symbol, they ruined rotational symmetry.
- stcredzero 18y agoAnd they ruined a bunch of debates on the Internet!
- Tichy 18y agoI think the human brain is optimized for recognizing faces. Those geometric variations of identicon don't look different enough in my opinion. I like the general idea, though.
- jcl 18y agoIf the purpose is -- as you say -- to "start associating usernames more with their set of comments", then random images should suffice. If the purpose is to have a visual item of personal expression added to each post, I suppose you'd need each person to choose one for themselves.
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoWell, a random image may not suffice for that purpose. I just don't know. Maybe for it to work, it has to be some sort of recognizable image. But random images would at least be worth a shot.