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Identicons
- Kelet 13y agoGreat update. I never cared to sign up for Gravatar as it's now owned by WordPress, but it was a minor annoyance that I was not identifiable by my avatar.
- edwintorok 13y agoYou could run your own with libravatar: https://www.libravatar.org/ https://www.libravatar.org/
- tlongren 13y agoI really like mine! It's about as minimal as can be, only two pixels with different color. https://identicons.github.com/tlongren.png https://identicons.github.com/tlongren.png
- eberfreitas 13y agoMine is pretty boring... https://identicons.github.com/eberfreitas.png https://identicons.github.com/eberfreitas.png But overall, it looks really cool :)
- masonhensley 13y agoMine: https://identicons.github.com/masonhensley.png https://identicons.github.com/masonhensley.png
- micheljansen 13y agoMine actually turns out quite well as a sort of evil bunny: https://identicons.github.com/micheljansen.png https://identicons.github.com/micheljansen.png
- andrewcooke 13y agoi spent some time working on something like this - i wanted something that could carry as much information as a typical cryptographic hash, but be memorable to a human. it turns out that it's quite hard to make that much information memorable :o) (it's even harder to measure whether something is memorable, or even "different" - i ended up getting sidetracked into extreme value statistics, and then giving up) but one important trick was to make the pattern symmetric in some way, which seems to be also used here. although it halves the amount of data (assuming other parameters constant) it makes it much, much easier to remember. anyway, these look good (for this use case).
- SaulOfTheJungle 13y agoMine looks weird, to say the least: https://identicons.github.com/ssilva.png https://identicons.github.com/ssilva.png
- jerluc 13y agoYeah...I unfortunately ended up with the same general shape: https://identicons.github.com/jerluc.png https://identicons.github.com/jerluc.png
- chasing 13y agoMine is sad! https://identicons.github.com/chasing.png https://identicons.github.com/chasing.png
- Kronopath 13y agoAnd mine is happy! :3 https://identicons.github.com/kronopath.png https://identicons.github.com/kronopath.png
- thoradam 13y agoI can't tell if mine is also sad or just sporting a killer moustache https://identicons.github.com/thoradam.png https://identicons.github.com/thoradam.png
- jerf 13y agoMaybe this will cheer you up: https://identicons.github.com/thejerf.png https://identicons.github.com/thejerf.png (More obviously a smile in the favicon view in the tab than the blown-up view. Pity I can't close the mouth.)
- igreulich 13y agoOr Grendel http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/g/grbwrtpb.jpg http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/g/grbwrtpb.jpg EDIT: No Markdown?
- hayksaakian 13y agoI like this! Now I'll use it for other things too.
- valtron 13y ago"Huge number of unique identicons"? Since they all seem to be symmetric, there's only N * 2^15 = N * 32768 of them (N = number of colors).
- nathancahill 13y agoI think N is huge. I haven't seen many repeated colors yet.
- tel 13y agoColors don't have to actually repeat in order to be confusing.
- blackant 13y agoFWIW, there are 360 possible hues, 20 possible saturation values, and 20 possible luminosity values.
- nathancahill 13y agoSo, 1000 times more possible identicons than users. 360 * 20 * 20 * 32768 = 4,718,592,000. Github users: ~4m.
- chasing 13y agoReminds me of Jared Tarbell's "Invader Fractal:" http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfractal/ http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfrac... (Jared also happens to be one of Etsy's co-founders...)
- gnoway 13y agoWhat problem do these solve? Serious question.
- nfriedly 13y agoIt makes it easier to recognize that two or more comments in a long thread came from the same user.
- samgro 13y agoThis will be very useful if it makes it into GitHub Enterprise - our IT won't let us use Gravatar, so comment threads/issues are harder to follow.
- hakanito 13y agoI filed a bug report that my default GitHub avatar was not found - Apparently it was an issue with broken profile images, and they fixed it with these identicons.
- andrewflnr 13y agoI got an evil alien: https://identicons.github.com/andrewf.png https://identicons.github.com/andrewf.png
- Aqua_Geek 13y agoMine looks like an anchor: https://identicons.github.com/aquageek.png https://identicons.github.com/aquageek.png
- jzelinskie 13y agoMine[0] kinda reminds me of a Boo Bell[1] from Mario Party. [0] https://identicons.github.com/jzelinskie.png https://identicons.github.com/jzelinskie.png [1] http://www.mariowiki.com/Boo_Bell http://www.mariowiki.com/Boo_Bell
- j_horvat 13y agoLooks like Frank from Donnie Darko
- nathancahill 13y agoI found an identicon onomatopoeia: https://identicons.github.com/mask.png https://identicons.github.com/mask.png
- ghubbard 13y agohttps://identicons.github.com/elephant.png https://identicons.github.com/elephant.png
- nathancahill 13y agohttps://identicons.github.com/mouse.png https://identicons.github.com/mouse.png
- jemfinch 13y agoI could not have chosen a better one: https://identicons.github.com/jemfinch.png https://identicons.github.com/jemfinch.png
- k3n 13y agoPardon my ignorance, but why is that one so fitting?
- necubi 13y agoMine is pretty unexciting: https://identicons.github.com/mwylde.png https://identicons.github.com/mwylde.png. It would be nice if the algorithm took interest (probably defined as a ratio close to 50/50 white/black cells) into account to prevent mostly black or mostly white avatars.
- bjackman 13y agoI think thats a really good one. Its s.ymmetrical and has a cool minimalism. Edit: ok actually they're all symmetrical ..
- tveita 13y agoI like their small file size, around 200 to 300 bytes. Though that's arguably large to store a 5x5 bitmap + one RGB color, which would fit comfortably in 7 bytes.
- film42 13y agoI found a blank one: https://identicons.github.com/lessons.png https://identicons.github.com/lessons.png
- Sidnicious 13y agoIt only generates identicons for real GitHub accounts.
- feniv 13y agoIt would be nice if rather than using the hash (which you have no control over), the algorithm looked at the distribution of languages I program in and used that to pick the colors. That would be a better representation of my programming identity and is in line up with what github already does for repos.
- daGrevis 13y agoA lot of people may know already that PHP is purple, Python is blue and JavaScript is orange. Or at least GitHub has chosen those colors to represent languages on their site. So I would like that my avatar is more blue'ish because I focus on Python. :)
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- tel 13y agoPointless estimation: There are, say, around 10x2^(5x3) = Identicons assuming about 10 color shades can be told apart easily. That's ~300,000 different combinations. You need ~650 people contributing to a repo in order to get a 50% chance of collision. So, while there are almost certainly collisions across all Github users, you're pretty unlikely to see one in any thread you'll participate in. Especially since so many Githubbers actually do have Gravatars.
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- dimadima 13y agoWhy not just use QR codez they are SO COOL.
- j_horvat 13y agohttps://identicons.github.com/jhorvat.png https://identicons.github.com/jhorvat.png I like how mine looks like an H (my last initial)
- ultimatedelman 13y agomine is... borderline offensive? https://identicons.github.com/ultimatedelman.png https://identicons.github.com/ultimatedelman.png or a racecar. not sure which.
- gingerlime 13y agomine looks upside-down https://identicons.github.com/gingerlime.png https://identicons.github.com/gingerlime.png but I LOVE this idea and execution. Considering turning off my gravatar.
- JohnHammersley 13y agoReligious symbol or two hands holding a pea? Or if you stretch the imagination really hard, a top down view of a TIE/IN ? :-) https://identicons.github.com/JohnHammersley.png https://identicons.github.com/JohnHammersley.png
- saman_b 13y agoMine looks like a human: https://identicons.github.com/samanbarghi.png https://identicons.github.com/samanbarghi.png
- philfreo 13y agoI wish Gravatar themselves would add more options for fallback images. All the ones they have are pretty obtrusive. Ex: nicer looking identicons, someones initials (Trello style), or even just the ability to pass a URL that has a querystring as a fallback image. They do have a "identicon" already. I wonder why GitHub didn't use it -- probably just didn't like the way they looked. https://secure.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/#default-image https://secure.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/#default-i...
- pathikrit 13y agoMine is the anonymous/guy fawkes face: https://identicons.github.com/pathikrit.png https://identicons.github.com/pathikrit.png
- tel 13y agoMine's mousey https://identicons.github.com/tel.png https://identicons.github.com/tel.png
- corobo 13y agoI realise it's completely childish but I was amused by https://identicons.github.com/hate.png https://identicons.github.com/hate.png looking like a smiley face. Also https://identicons.github.com/balls.png https://identicons.github.com/balls.png