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Show HN: Icotar – Generate Free Colorful Icon Avatars (icotar.com)
36 points by craigphares 2673 days ago
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This is cool. I wonder... If you enter "first" (https://icotar.com/avatar/first) then enter in the primary color closest to the color of the background, a space, and the name of the picture, e.g. https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20snowflake and continue doing this, how far could it go before leading to a cycle, and what is the average distance to a cycle given some arbitrary input?

Sample: https://icotar.com/avatar/first https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20snowflake https://icotar.com/avatar/yellow%20plane https://icotar.com/avatar/blue%20car https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20waves https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20moon etc...

#009688 is green?
I just got a green bicycle for my first name. https://icotar.com/avatar/janos (note: I cycle to work and I am an eco-conscious). Nice!
Reminds me of that neat "brute forcing the devil" post from a few years ago.
On Icotar, his devil name is an orange bicycle: http://icotar.com/avatar/heapaepaemnunea
There are 672 different avatar combinations.

This is a neat idea but that is not enough combinations to make this a useful public service.

It's a start! What do you suggest the minimum number of combinations would be to make this more useful?
thank you
You're very welcome. Hope you make something awesome with it!