[HN Gopher] Ugly Avatar
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Ugly Avatar
Author : unobatbayar
Score : 208 points
Date : 2024-03-25 07:36 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (txstc55.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (txstc55.github.io)
| gus_massa wrote:
| Is it possible to have a gravatar-like interface, where I get a
| fixed image?
| enahs-sf wrote:
| burgeoning startup opportunity right here
| jallmann wrote:
| BoringAvatars [1][2] or Robohash [3]
|
| [1] https://boringavatars.com
|
| [2] URL service: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-
| avatars-service/bl...
|
| [3] https://robohash.org
| ants_everywhere wrote:
| Uh, are they all brown?
|
| EDIT: oops, my fault, dark reader was changing the colors.
| h4x0rr wrote:
| You have dark reader on?
| squigz wrote:
| Hah. I do, and it definitely caught me off guard too. Thanks
| for pointing that out!
| ants_everywhere wrote:
| oh yeah I do, thanks! I'm not sure why I didn't think of
| that.
| imzadi wrote:
| I feel called out
| EGreg wrote:
| What are some of the best libraries that would generate an avatar
| in PHP directly?
|
| Or in Javascript?
|
| I don't want to have to hit any APIs.
| sph wrote:
| ImageMagick?
| hiccuphippo wrote:
| You could generate svg.
| jaynetics wrote:
| If you want to deterministically generate avatars for your
| users, you're looking for "identicons". Googling that will
| yield several libraries for any common language.
| doublerabbit wrote:
| PHP is nice with GD or ImageMagick.
|
| Make a circle.png
|
| Use GD to overlay colour over the radius of the circle
|
| Apply facial details
|
| Then finally anything extra
| Menu_Overview wrote:
| You'll need a library that can render to some 2D-context that
| can then be converted to PNG.
|
| JS is probably where you should look. You might be able to find
| a good PHP drawing library but I've never come across that in
| my work. Lots of image converting libraries out there (usually
| just a wrapper around ImageMagik), but "drawing images" usually
| a client-side thing and you'll find more support for it.
|
| In JS, you'll draw the image to a `<canvas>` element, which can
| then be downloaded as a PNG. You could go the SVG route, too,
| depending on the art style. Canvas is the safer bet.
| arjan_sch wrote:
| Nice project. Would be good to add a bit more diversity to the
| skin tones though :)
| whatshisface wrote:
| It would get this guy absolutely murdered if one of the funny
| faces looked racist.
| hateful wrote:
| If you had the Dark Reader extension enabled like I did when
| I first went to the site...
| zwirbl wrote:
| I didn't even realize until I read your comment
| braingravy wrote:
| Ya you're right brown people can't be included in funny or
| silly things. Good call good call.
| mock-possum wrote:
| Can we not do that here please
|
| The whole "you're not allowed to do anything these days for
| fear of being accused of being racist" thing
| whatshisface wrote:
| You can't please everybody, which leaves your conscience as
| the deciding factor. If you would rather not draw black
| people with googly eyes and vacant expressions, I can
| hardly criticize that. Like you point out, you'll get
| criticized - but again, it's impossible to make everyone
| satisfied with this stuff.
| trallnag wrote:
| Too risky
| sccxy wrote:
| Perfect
|
| Replace intranet/Jira avatars with these on April 1st.
| layer8 wrote:
| Why only on April 1st?
| poyu wrote:
| This is the generative art I love!
| oseph wrote:
| Ah this is awesome! I really like how you handled the hair in
| these.
|
| I made something similar a few years back, pulling from a suite
| of random textures. https://holinaty.com/randomfaces/
| unobatbayar wrote:
| Ah, sorry guys.
|
| A little late disclaimer. I didn't create this project.
|
| All the credit goes to Xuan Tang.
|
| - https://txstc55.github.io/
|
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=txstc55
| mvid wrote:
| This reminds me of the only NFT collection I have ever liked:
| https://www.stargaze.zone/m/stars19jq6mj84cnt9p7sagjxqf8hxtc...
| ggorlen wrote:
| Fantastic, but unfortunately the source code is minified:
| https://github.com/txstc55/ugly-avatar, making it difficult to
| see how it was done and learn from or contribute to the project.
| enahs-sf wrote:
| I just looked at the source map in the browser -- you can check
| it out there.
| ggorlen wrote:
| Thanks! I found the Vue source in Firefox by going into the
| Debugger tab in DevTools, and clicking on Sources > Webpack >
| ugly-face > src.
|
| Chrome makes it a bit more intuitive, since the tab is called
| Sources, then click into Page > top > ugly-face > src.
|
| That said, I don't understand why the author didn't simply
| commit the source code into the GH repo, especially since
| it's fully retrievable anyway. Maybe there's some goal in
| doing that other than security by obscurity I'm missing,
| since they've followed the same pattern for multiple of their
| repos. It seems kind of anti-collaborative to me.
| txstc55 wrote:
| I believe for avatar generations i have including this one,
| three of them. I thought i pushed the code already. For any
| code that requires a database access I don't push the code
| ggorlen wrote:
| Thanks, I appreciate seeing the code! For code with
| database access, you could use an environment variable
| from a .env file and gitignore that file, making it safe
| to share. (you're probably already aware of this practice
| and may have another reason not to want to push it)
| ithkuil wrote:
| You mean uglified
| BMorearty wrote:
| hee hee
| hn_acker wrote:
| Additionally, there's no copyright license on the files.
| (Tangent: even if there were a free software license, the
| software wouldn't be free software by the FSF's definition
| (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html) because source
| code is the form that the author prefers when the author
| modifies the software, and minified code usually is not that.)
| KTibow wrote:
| You can change the branch to main and see the code. (I agree
| that having the pages branch as the default branch and
| uploading built code instead of building it with a GH action is
| still odd)
| ggorlen wrote:
| It's there now (thanks for the alert!), but I don't think the
| main branch was there when I wrote the parent comment. If I
| recall correctly, it was just the gh-pages branch like these
| other repos from OP: https://github.com/txstc55/Ducked-
| support and https://github.com/txstc55/duck-duck-duck.
|
| (Of course, those repos may have main pushed later as well,
| invalidating this comment too)
|
| Nice of the author to share the code. Thanks!
| blastro wrote:
| Looks like the animation style of the cartoon "Home Movies" -
| seriously underrated show. Jon H Benjamin is the voice of the
| main character.
| wonger_ wrote:
| Same thought! Home Movies is one of my favorite shows.
|
| And it looks so similar:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcBL9JPfZw&list=PLqIbkxo6OP...
| joemi wrote:
| I immediately thought the same and figured I just got one that
| looked kind of like that to start of with, and reloaded and
| reloaded and reloaded and was so pleased when I just kept
| getting ones that looked like Home Movies. Because of that,
| they all strike me as charming and amusing more than they do
| ugly.
| Klonoar wrote:
| Err, that's if you consider McGuirk the main character. Which
| sometimes I could see, haha.
|
| Small voiced his namesake in that cartoon.
| saghm wrote:
| Yeah, as much as McGuirk is my favorite character on that
| show, I think it's a bit of a stretch to call him the main
| character. He's definitely the most recognizable voice from
| the show though!
| crabmusket wrote:
| Brilliant show. I grew up watching Science Court by the same
| creators. It's got a very sly sense of humour.
| nozzlegear wrote:
| I remember watching this show at 3am as a teenager, while my
| sister and I ate breakfast before heading out to our jobs on a
| dairy. We did _not like_ this show, but it was really the only
| thing that was on at 3am. It was followed by The Oblongs which
| we vaguely remember as bizarre and joke about it being a shared
| dream we must've had when we fell asleep on the job.
| ihaveajob wrote:
| Ha! This is basically why I bought uglyavatar.com a couple of
| years ago. I was taken aback when I saw this on HN. Maybe I
| should do something with it one day...
| doublerabbit wrote:
| Just url redirect it to this repo page, if your not doing
| anything with it.
|
| Might as well point it somewhere.
| amadeuspagel wrote:
| That's cool. Hacks into our ability to recognize faces, without
| requiring real faces. A forum, where these avatars are randomly
| generated per thread would be cool. Kind of like /pol/ thread
| ids, but easier recognize.
| harrisi wrote:
| Pareidolia, or, more generally, apophenia.
| txstc55 wrote:
| Hi all, I'm the creator of this website, I will open source the
| code soon. Any support is appreciated. If you have X/twitter,
| consider also liking this post:
| https://twitter.com/txstc55/status/1772163607809478948
| mike986 wrote:
| very entertaining.
|
| if it's not a lot, can you have another UI that display more
| than one avatar at a time? say, 3x3 or 4x3 grid?
|
| Thanks
| txstc55 wrote:
| It's not hard but I don't see the use of this, so probably
| not. And also although it doesn't seem like it but the
| computation is quite intense for them, having multiple will
| lag the browser
| mike986 wrote:
| no worry.
|
| maybe i'll explain why, it's like the finding a mate for
| marriage problem. you dates enough ppl to have a taste of
| what you like, and then for the next one that comes along
| that is on par with the best you've seen, you take that.
|
| i guess a 3x3 grid is not necessary, maybe when you click
| "another", push the old one up (or down) the stack but keep
| it around so I can always go back and pick the best one I
| liked so far after the sampling?
|
| Anyway, don't sweat about it, thanks for creating this.
| navane wrote:
| What you are looking for is called the secretary problem
| [0]. This states that in a search like yours, you can
| determine beforehand how often you are willing to press
| "another", and after 37% of attempts, you pick the first
| one that's better than the best one so far.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
| layer8 wrote:
| I love this. Should be hosted on thisavataristoouglytoexist.com
| though.
| txstc55 wrote:
| Are they too ugly to exist though?
| layer8 wrote:
| I was going to suggest thisavatardoesnotexist.com first, but
| it felt too counterfactual, so I settled on that.
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