AlchemicAvatar

Creating letter avatar from user's name(or any other strong / character).

Inspired by letter_avatar.

Examples

Google's Inbox Palette

Installation

System requirements

$ sudo apt-get install -y imagemagick

Mac OS X

$ brew install imagemagick ghostscript

Add alchemic_avatar to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:alchemic_avatar, "~> 0.1.0"}]
end

Ensure alchemic_avatar is started before your application:

def application do
  [applications: [:alchemic_avatar]]
end

Configuration

config :alchemic_avatar,
  cache_base_path: "static",             # default is "static"
  colors_palette: :iwanthue,             # default is :google
  weight: 500,                           # default is 300
  annotate_position: "-0+10",            # default is -0+5
  app_name: #your app name(required)

Color palette

We have two color palettes implemented: iwanthue and google.

Each of them have different colors, but the iwanthue also differently calculates the color for specified username.

The google selected will generate the same avatar for both, "Krzysiek" and "ksz2k" usernames given (both of them starts with letter "k"), but iwanthue will calculate it's md5 and then selects color, so there's huge chance that these usernames get different colors.

Usage

AlchemicAvatar.generate "ksz2k", 200
=> "public/system/alchemic_avatar/k/155_206_95/200.png"

Way to support chinese hanzi

# Translate chinese hanzi to pinyin
# https://github.com/zhangsoledad/alchemic_pinyin
iex> Pinyin.from_string("龡龢龣龤龥癩")
"chui he jue xie yu la"