Identicon Generator

This is an Elixir project that allows you to generate unique identicons for GitHub profiles. Identicons are simple, visually appealing icons generated based on a string of text.

Installation

To install and run this project on your local machine, please follow these steps:

Prerequisites

• Elixir and Erlang installed on your system. You can download them from the official Elixir website: https://elixir-lang.org/install.html

Clone the Repository

1. Open your terminal.
2. Change to the directory where you want to clone the project.
3. Run the following command to clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/identicon.git

Replace your-username with your GitHub username.

Build Dependencies

1. Change to the project's root directory:

cd identicon

2. Fetch and compile the project dependencies by running:

mix deps.get

Generate Identicons

To generate an identicon, you can make use of the provided Identicon module.

1. Start an interactive Elixir shell (IEx) by running:

iex -S mix

2. Inside the IEx shell, you can generate an identicon by calling the Identicon.generate/1 function and passing a string as the argument. For example:

iex> Identicon.main("JohnDoe")

This will generate an identicon based on the provided string.

The generated identicon will be saved as a PNG image file in the project's root directory.