Generate Avatars for Users Similarly to GitHub

[redsky17]

Rather than taking the first letter of the display name and using that to create a simple avatar for users that don't have one, do something like what GitHub does instead. Each avatar is unique for the entire username rather than just defaulting to the first letter of their display name.

[adasauce]

CATS

[adasauce]

from the matrix room

cadence

I just noticed nheko #6 here about generating picture avatars as placeholders rather than using the first letter. I like this idea, but I thought of something much prettier...

(Issue: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/6)

David Revoy has created these bird and cat avatar generators with his own code and art. I expect he'd be open to allowing nheko to use these graphics. I think this would be much more cute and fun than the boring patterns that GitHub has.

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article720/bird-avatar-generator

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-avatar-generator

PNG and ORA files licensed under: CC-By 4.0 attribution: David Revoy with the following exception: Generated pictures used as Avatar (for blog,forum,social-network) don't need direct attribution and so, can be used as regular avatars without pasting David Revoy's name all over the place. (thank you)

Ingwie Phoenix

That'd be a very cute "blank" avatar! I am very bored of generally seeing applications just using a simple color and a letter. Those cute birdies would look great

Nico

Yeah, but the cats would fit N(h)eko much better! ;p
Someone would need to reimplement the generator in C++ though, I won't bundle a php interpreter and I would prefer not to rely on a 3rd party web service :3

Ingwie Phoenix

https://framagit.org/Deevad/cat-avatar-generator/-/blob/master/cat-avatar-generator.php#L18-46 This doesnt look impossible to do :)

adasauce

how large is the asset set required to generate them?
all the different cat variations

nephele

I have seen some people use those avatars in matrix too (though the having to provide attribution part is a bad hard with avatars in generall)

Nico

40 files or 60
https://framagit.org/Deevad/cat-avatar-generator/-/tree/master/avatars%2Fcat

[redsky17]

So I implemented JDenticon in C++/Qt as a Qt plug-in for the generation support in nheko. If someone wants to go ahead and fork that repo to add support for the cats, that'd be awesome! Nheko already had been updated to check for the existence of that plug-in at launch, so it'd just be a matter of updating nheko to actually use it (this is the part I did not get to).

[redsky17]

Repo in question:
https://github.com/redsky17/qt-jdenticon

[cloudrac3r]

Would this overlay the cat parts live as the avatar, or would it render all the parts to a single image and use that image as the avatar?