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Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#31

Post by erikwiffin » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

It would be awesome if http://robohash.org/google.jpg generated a jpg, and http://robohash.org/google.png generated a png.

It would be even more awesome if http://robohash.org/favicon.ico generated a .ico file.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#32

Post by e1ven » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:03 PM UTC

erikwiffin wrote: post #31

It would be awesome if http://robohash.org/google.jpg generated a jpg, and http://robohash.org/google.png generated a png. It would be even more awesome if http://robohash.org/favicon.ico generated a .ico file.

Google.jpg does generate a jpg, but it's not the same as google.png;

The reason for that is that I'm hashing whatever you send in, including the extension.. Otherwise, if you passed file.txt and file.mp3 they'd come to the same hash.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#33

Post by FrankBlack » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

I think this is broken. I entered, "Bite my shiny, metal ass!" and all I got was some weird, Barney-like purple robot. I'd suggest special sub-routines for certain phrases including, but not limited to: "Ex-Ter-Mi-NATE!", "Danger, Will Robinson!", "Crush, Kill, Destroy!", "Beedeebeedeebeedeebeedee!", "We've got movie sign!", "Blah, blah, blah", "I'll be back", etc.

;)

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#34

Post by e1ven » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:15 PM UTC

FrankBlack wrote: post #33

I think this is broken. I entered, "Bite my shiny, metal ass!" and all I got was some weird, Barney-like purple robot. I'd suggest special sub-routines for certain phrases including, but not limited to: "Ex-Ter-Mi-NATE!", "Danger, Will Robinson!", "Crush, Kill, Destroy!", "Beedeebeedeebeedeebeedee!", "We've got movie sign!", "Blah, blah, blah", "I'll be back", etc. ;)

For 2.0, I'll add ?popculture=yes ;)

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#35

Post by tptacek » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

You write really good web site copy.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#36

Post by Klinky » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

jawns wrote: post #26

So THIS is what the Googlebot looks like! http://robohash.org/google

Bing just looks like a goofy hipster.

http://robohash.org/bing

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#37

Post by wicknicks » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:55 PM UTC

Wow! Very nice morning treat :-)

R2D2 and C3P0 look like this:

http://robohash.org/c3p0.png http://robohash.org/r2d2.png

C3P0's got horns!!

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#38

Post by billpg » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:57 PM UTC

e1ven wrote: post #23

tibbon wrote: post #22

Any open/permissive license on the output and/or code?

CC BY 3.0 on the Images, BSD on the code.

Who should I attribute as the creator of the robot images? You, the website, or the author of the hashed plain-text?

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#39

Post by e1ven » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:57 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #35

You write really good web site copy.

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. The whole project is very silly, so it doesn't make much sense to take it very seriously ;)

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

#40

Post by e1ven » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

wicknicks wrote: post #37

Wow! Very nice morning treat :-) R2D2 and C3P0 look like this: http://robohash.org/c3p0.png http://robohash.org/r2d2.png C3P0's got horns!!

I'm surprised no one's posted anything from set2 or set3, or included any backgrounds ;)