identicon

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identicon

This program implements a simple identicon library, similar to Github's.

There is a demo webservice included. Try:

go run demo/main.go

and then visit http://localhost:8080/dgryski.png

Documentation

Overview

Package identicon creates simple visual hashes of data as PNGs.

For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon and https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons

Index

• type Renderer
  • func New5x5(key []byte) Renderer
  • func New7x7(key []byte) Renderer

Types

type Renderer

type Renderer interface {
	// Render generates a PNG from data
	Render(data []byte) []byte
}

Renderer allows rendering of data as a PNG identicon

func New5x5

func New5x5(key []byte) Renderer

New5x5 creates a new 5-by-5 identicon renderer using 'key' as the hash salt

func New7x7

func New7x7(key []byte) Renderer

New7x7 creates a new 7-by-7 identicon renderer using 'key' as the hash salt