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Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

melvinmt wrote: post #75
e1ven wrote: post #54

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I think it would be pretty silly to add a paid plan to a weekend project. ;) I'll only do that, with the watermark, if it goes over what my bottom-rung Linode+CDN can deliver.

It's not silly for people who are actually using this. I'd rather pay for the service than living with the uncertainty of getting a banner because you can't pay your CDN bills. That's really the only thing that prohibits me from using this service in anything useful anyway. It looks very nice so that clearly would be a waste.

Download the source from github !

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by donpark »

6ren wrote: post #90
donpark wrote: post #68

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Re 'not all that memorable', that's because identicons were originally designed for 'distinguishing' and 'matching' data, not 'memorizing'. Abstract geometric identicons like my original implementation as well as variations used at Wordpress and StackOverflow are, while nearly impossible to remember, distinguishable in a pile which comes in handy when distinguishing the 'voice' of individuals in a long thread of comm…

Using stories is a great idea, but I'm not sure how doable it is to generate images that suggest a story (certainly, harder than cute variations on robots); in addition, those stories have to be memorable i.e. make sense, as stories. I think that's approaching a hard problem, maybe even hard AI. But I like the idea. Perhaps the image problem could be met by combining it with a bio (giving a story); and the "make sens…

Right. If employees of Apple gets certificates with O = "Apple" and OU = "Engineering" which maps to a red apple badge on their robot's body and a gear mark on the arm, people could potentially learn to 'parse' that at a glance.

Everywhere we look in RL, there are stories being told all the time.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by celoyd »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #89
celoyd wrote: post #70

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The concern here is not that the poster comes off looking like a bad person, because clearly he* doesn’t, but that unintentionally sexist language persists. If I had corrected the poster’s lack of a final slash in his s/// syntax, I wouldn’t have been implicitly accusing him of being an incompetent programmer, because it’s a common and small mistake that I make too. But perhaps it’s worth pointing out every tenth tim…

It's colloquial in the same sense that it's ok to say "the best man for the job" "We were looking for the best for the job" .... and then go on to announce it's a woman. We don't have to be such prudes to be respectful of the other gender.

“The best man for the job” is an idiom. Even then, I don’t see any plausible advantage it has in most contexts over “the best person for the job”.

This isn’t meant as prudery. Would you develop that argument? I’m curious why I’m being downvoted and would like a chance to engage.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by jrockway »

MartinCron wrote: post #86
e1ven wrote: post #39

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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 ;)

I'm impressed that you got an endorsement from Cave Johnson. It must be nice having friends like that.

To be fair, it was just a pre-recorded message.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by vog »

I find it pretty clever to generate Robot faces rather than whole robots or other pictures. Human brains are optimized for face recognition, which is why we can tell even minor differences in faces far easier than minor differences in other pictures.

Therefore, generating human faces would serve this purpose even better, but those are at risk of falling into the uncanny valley. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley)

Using clearly non-human faces (such as Robot faces) avoids that problem.

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by meric »

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.

http://robohash.org/google.gif generated a .gif file!

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by mgkimsal »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #47
e1ven wrote: post #19

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If you use all three sets (?set=any), plus backgrounds, that adds two additional choices, which brings us into the 100+ Million category. As a signal to review the Pubkey, that's probably enough. I could have made up more Random elements, but that'd take more time/money, which isn't worth it unless anyone outside of me actually wants it ;)

Sounds like it would be a pretty good "did I type my password correctly?" indicator.

woudn't you need to be sending the password over to the robot icon people to get the imag?

Re: Create a Robot Image from any text string

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Post by Maxious »

celoyd wrote: post #70
ComputerGuru wrote: post #64

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I wouldn't worry about it. You didn't come off as sexist or anything; it was clearly just informal colloquial speak.

The concern here is not that the poster comes off looking like a bad person, because clearly he* doesn’t, but that unintentionally sexist language persists. If I had corrected the poster’s lack of a final slash in his s/// syntax, I wouldn’t have been implicitly accusing him of being an incompetent programmer, because it’s a common and small mistake that I make too. But perhaps it’s worth pointing out every tenth tim…

At this moment, the #1 post on my reddit front page is complaining that the people who complain about spelling or grammar errors... probably don't speak two languages. ie. Whilst fighting the good fight for gender-neutrality/spelling/grammar, please don't forget that some people (especially on the internet) might not have as a nuanced expression in English as you.
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