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		ZeroGravitas on Jan 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Texatar - Texual Avatar You don't address why this is better than the gravatar options of a random image based on email hash: identicon: a geometric pattern based on an email hash monsterid: a generated 'monster' with different colors, faces, etc wavatar: generated faces with differing features and backgrounds retro: awesome generated, 8-bit arcade-style pixelated faces from: http://www.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/ I can see why extra options are good, I'm just confused why you wouldn't compare it against this similar idea that people might be familiar with.

dshimy on Jan 28, 2013 [–]

1. The primary motivation was to use the user's initials to one could identify the person. The images made available by Gravatar were too hard to associate with a person.

2. I didn't feel the Gravatar options had the design look I was looking for.

Thanks!

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