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1d
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.
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23h57m
Looks like the animation style of the cartoon "Home Movies" - seriously underrated show. Jon H Benjamin is the voice of the main character.
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22h23m
Err, that’s if you consider McGuirk the main character. Which sometimes I could see, haha.
Small voiced his namesake in that cartoon.
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21h19m
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!
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18h36m
The grill is really the main character.
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23h18m
Same thought! Home Movies is one of my favorite shows.
And it looks so similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcBL9JPfZw&list=PLqIbkxo6OP...
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15h18m
Home Movies carried me through the pandemic, fond memories of the show
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19h1m
Brendon Small voices the main character. H Jon Benjamin is one of the supporting characters (coach McGuirk)
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19h55m
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.
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23h12m
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.
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20h9m
Brilliant show. I grew up watching Science Court by the same creators. It's got a very sly sense of humour.
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1d1h
Nice project. Would be good to add a bit more diversity to the skin tones though :)
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1d1h
It would get this guy absolutely murdered if one of the funny faces looked racist.
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22h2m
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
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21h15m
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.
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23h58m
If you had the Dark Reader extension enabled like I did when I first went to the site...
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23h50m
I didn't even realize until I read your comment
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22h50m
Ya you’re right brown people can’t be included in funny or silly things. Good call good call.
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1d
Too risky
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1d1h
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.
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1d1h
ImageMagick?
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23h58m
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.
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1d1h
You could generate svg.
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23h23m
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
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23h22m
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.
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22h52m
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
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22h20m
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
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22h1m
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
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21h46m
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.
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21h31m
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.
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1d1h
Perfect
Replace intranet/Jira avatars with these on April 1st.
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22h1m
Why only on April 1st?
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15h31m
April Fools day
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6h58m
Ok, let me rephrase: Why only on April Fools day?
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1d5h
Is it possible to have a gravatar-like interface, where I get a fixed image?
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22h11m
BoringAvatars [1][2] or Robohash [3]
[2] URL service: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars-service/bl...
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14h34m
I mean i also made this one: https://txstc55.github.io/simple-avatar/
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1d
burgeoning startup opportunity right here
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1d1h
Uh, are they all brown?
EDIT: oops, my fault, dark reader was changing the colors.
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1d1h
You have dark reader on?
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1d1h
Hah. I do, and it definitely caught me off guard too. Thanks for pointing that out!
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1d
oh yeah I do, thanks! I'm not sure why I didn't think of that.
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22h8m
I love this. Should be hosted on thisavataristoouglytoexist.com though.
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22h2m
Are they too ugly to exist though?
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21h57m
I was going to suggest thisavatardoesnotexist.com first, but it felt too counterfactual, so I settled on that.
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23h46m
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...
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23h27m
Just url redirect it to this repo page, if your not doing anything with it.
Might as well point it somewhere.
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23h1m
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.
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22h14m
Pareidolia, or, more generally, apophenia.
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39m
一个带着眼镜的帅气男孩
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39m
一个帅气的男孩，带着眼镜
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1d1h
Ah, sorry guys.
A little late disclaimer. I didn't create this project.
All the credit goes to Xuan Tang.
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4h59m
tractor
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16h0m
See also the duck generator, by the same creator: https://txstc55.github.io/duck-duck-duck/
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1d1h
This is the generative art I love!
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1d1h
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/
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1d1h
This reminds me of the only NFT collection I have ever liked: https://www.stargaze.zone/m/stars19jq6mj84cnt9p7sagjxqf8hxtc...
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12h20m
Great, and I think I've seen something similar like this style.
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1d1h
I feel called out
I just looked at the source map in the browser — you can check it out there.
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.
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
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)
For things working with database I mainly don’t want to expose the rpc calls or the database queries. I know people can just get it by checking dev tool but it’s one layer of labor and can filter out many people with millacious intent
You mean uglified
hee hee
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.)
You are right, I probably should have a copyright file there, just so that if people use this project they have to cite me, other than that I don’t care about how people use it
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)
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!