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Draw landscapes instead of DiceBear's Shapes style

2a8c7fbf4b2670a386ab2c203db20bb90489263a · Keenan Nemetz · 8d ago · parent 97f77001

Draw landscapes instead of DiceBear's Shapes style

DiceBear ships no landscape style, so the bundle now carries one written
against its core API. The engine that matters is still DiceBear's — the
seeded PRNG, the option handling, the 100×100 box and the circular mask
— while the style is part of Vole and carries this project's licence.
That drops the Shapes licence file and leaves DiceBear's own MIT notice.

The art is one idea: the account's tone is the sky, two or three hills
are the same colour a step darker, and the sun is drawn from Everforest's
cream, yellow or sunset orange. Each hill is a circle whose centre sits
below the box, so only its ridge shows; drawing them back to front with
one step of shade between them is what gives the depth at 17px without
an outline. The sun is placed above the highest ridge, so it is never
lost behind a hill, and a low ridge can swallow its foot like a sunset.

The bundle is now 10KB (4KB gzipped) and an avatar is about 470 bytes
of SVG, down from 18KB and 800 because Shapes was the bigger style. The
server's half is unchanged: the initial on the account's ground is drawn
first and stays if the script never runs.

docs/accounts-and-access.md +9−7

@@ -29,13 +29,15 @@ commented on, and the repositories that work is in. Retiring an account keeps it
	29	29	page, marked as no longer active, because every closed issue and merged change
	30	30	still refers to the name.
	31	31
	32		Every name is drawn an avatar from the account name, using DiceBear's Shapes
	33		style and the Everforest palette. The mark is drawn in the browser from a script
	34		embedded in the binary, so the same person looks the same on every page and
	35		between visits; the instance stores no image, accepts no upload, and makes no
	36		request to an avatar service. Until the script draws the mark the page shows the
	37		account's initial on its ground, which is also what a browser without scripts
	38		keeps. It is decoration, not an identifier; a name is what identifies an account.
		32	Every name is drawn a small landscape from the account name: the account's tone
		33	is the sky, the hills are steps darker than it, and the sun comes from the
		34	Everforest palette. DiceBear's engine draws it in the browser, with a style that
		35	lives in this repository, from a script embedded in the binary. So the same
		36	person looks the same on every page and between visits; the instance stores no
		37	image, accepts no upload, and makes no request to an avatar service. Until the
		38	script draws the mark the page shows the account's initial on the same sky, which
		39	is also what a browser without scripts keeps. It is decoration, not an
		40	identifier; a name is what identifies an account.
	39	41
	40	42	What a profile counts is not public. Every number and every event is limited to
	41	43	the repositories the reader may open, so two people can see different totals for