Show HN: Icotar – Generate Free Colorful Icon Avatars

[warent]

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...

[throway88989898]

#009688 is green?

[aries1980]

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!

[na85]

Reminds me of that neat "brute forcing the devil" post from a few years ago.

[notamy]

For the curious: https://blog.passcod.name/2014/jun/05/bruteforcing-the-devil

[craigphares]

On Icotar, his devil name is an orange bicycle: http://icotar.com/avatar/heapaepaemnunea

[deweller]

There are 672 different avatar combinations.

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

[craigphares]

It's a start! What do you suggest the minimum number of combinations would be to make this more useful?

[alexis302000]

thank you

[craigphares]

You're very welcome. Hope you make something awesome with it!