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Neat! This reminds me of urbit sigils[1]. The problem with urbit sigils is that they only support 32 bits of entropy because that's the size of urbit's owned re
by dcow 5y ago
Neat! This reminds me of urbit sigils[1]. The problem with urbit sigils is that they only support 32 bits of entropy because that's the size of urbit's owned real estate space. These hash avatars support 8 times the entropy and also directly map to a 256 bit public key although one may want to be slightly careful mixing the use cases without some other visual queue (this is a sha256 vs this is a pubkey).
[1]: https://urbit.org/blog/creating-sigils/ https://urbit.org/blog/creating-sigils/
- postalrat 5y agoThis one is new to me. Pretty cool.
- gnarbarian 5y agodefinitely. I far prefer urbit Sigils because they are visually more interesting, diverse, and memorable.
- jagger27 5y agourbit sigils with 8 colour options seems like a no-brainer then.
- monocasa 5y agoIsn't that just 35 bits?
- textprotocol 5y agoAdditionally, aside from aesthetically pleasing, Urbit sigils are very straightforward to implement: # sha3sum <<< 'textprotocol@github' | urbit | sigil | convert svg:- jpg:- | jp2a - [1] https://github.com/textprotocol/sigil https://github.com/textprotocol/sigil