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LAUNCHED! Cute little pixel faces
by
Todd Rhodes
https://pixelfaces.io
Interesting. Am I missing out on some context?
Is it as cute as my face?
No. Not nearly.
This looks absolutely amazing, I wish if there was a way I can actually integrate this through an API to use it like a random user profile image placeholders.
Can be a good by product!!
Love it, wish I could download SVGs of the faces!
What would you use them for?
Definitely easy to use and understand. What is the story behind this app? I am curious.
I was talking with a friend who is a game dev about the constraints of low-res graphics. We had a disagreement on how many pixels you would need to represent a good range of human faces. He thought 3x3 would be enough.
I wanted to prove or disprove that. It turns out 3x3 is not really enough, you need 4x4. To show this, I wrote a VB script that would make a random face in Excel out of layers of head shape, hair, highlights, etc.
We both thought it would make a neat website, but he refused to program it for me. In a fit of pique I decided to do it myself :)
I also put a plug for my little newsletter about constraints. This is the kind of thing I would feature in the newsletter. Because of the constraints in the pixel faces, and also the fact that I tried to create the site from start to finish in one day.
You might want to explain that on the site, before I read that I had no idea what the newsletter thing was for
What a great story, love it!
Super creative!
I like this.
Nice idea and congratulations on the launch!
I think the faces could be slightly more detailed.
If you mean higher resolution, then no :) I explained why in a different comment.
If you mean other ways to vary the pixels, then yes. I would love to get more things in there. Shades of hair for instance.
Interesting and nice compact use of pixels! I thought though that we might be able to right-click and "save-as" an image of all or individual faces for our own projects. Or perhaps a button to download them. You could also have a slider for Width/Height so you could present them in a grid of W/H. Cool idea.
Wow, that face looks exactly like mine, except it's cute.
We should combine products to make a "cute little pixel faces who worked on this github project" :D
https://commit-art.netlify.app/
This is super creative, I love it. Well done.
A good use case would be 'X people can't be wrong' with an embed? https://pixelfaces.io/?faces=X
Thanks for sharing this experiment. For a few weeks, I've been floating the idea of adding similar faces to https://midnight.pub to represent the users. I love the fact that it's so simple anyone could draw their own face, no need to be an artist. Thanks for proving that!
Nice! So when's Pixel bodies coming?
I like the one with the lime green earrings.
Me too.
And I like the one that looks like Mr. T.
Hi Todd, what is the idea behind this exactly?🤔
Love it. Feel like you could do lot's of interesting stuff with this.