Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
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Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
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Re: Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
#2One of the prettiest identicons I've seen.
Since it doesn't seem to be lossy, I was wondering if it could be somehow adapted to something that could be scanned as a QR code. I guess the minor color shifts might be hard to get right, but maybe combined/replaced with some form of symbol inside rings to help, a dot/dash combination?
Re: Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
#3One of the prettiest identicons I've seen. Since it doesn't seem to be lossy, I was wondering if it could be somehow adapted to something that could be scanned as a QR code. I guess the minor color shifts might be hard to get right, but maybe combined/replaced with some form of symbol inside rings to help, a dot/dash combination?
I'll also leave here this very nice list of identicon implementations: https://github.com/drhus/awesome-identicons
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#4As a warning, this would not be good for colorblind people (such as myself).
The "Hello, Hacker News!" Hash's middle ring has half it's ring that looks identical to me, and unless I looked carefully, that entire ring looked the same to me.
Re: Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
#5Suggestion: shave off two bits, and switch between the variants in the "A bit of fun" section: https://francoisbest.com/posts/2021/hashvatars#a-bit-of-fun
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#6It would be a lot more work, but it might work better if you picked something which humans are particularly tuned to notice subtle details such as faces.
Re: Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
#7As a warning, this would not be good for colorblind people (such as myself). The "Hello, Hacker News!" Hash's middle ring has half it's ring that looks identical to me, and unless I looked carefully, that entire ring looked the same to me.
What would you suggest as a solution ? I considered swapping Hue for Lightness in order to increase contrast changes. Would you be interested in testing out some variants ?
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#8It would be a lot more work, but it might work better if you picked something which humans are particularly tuned to notice subtle details such as faces.
Using the hash as a seed for an AI face generator like thispersondoesnotexist would be pretty powerful. Free idea for anyone who wants to give it a shot.
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#9Suggestion: shave off two bits, and switch between the variants in the "A bit of fun" section: https://francoisbest.com/posts/2021/hashvatars#a-bit-of-fun
What do you mean by "shave off 2 bits"?
Re: Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
#10Would be more awesome if it could export as an image! Right now I'm just manually inspecting it and copying the entire section.