That bloke thing up there

Hello, See how the guy has changed at the top of the page? well, He’ll continue to change, every single day, a new variation will be draw, dynamically, what fun eh?

It doesn’t stop there however! Oh No, Now at the top of each post, it has a little guy that is drawn exactly like he was on the day the post was written.

AND IT DOESN’T STOP THERE! Oh no, when you post a comment in any post on this website, it now will dynamically create a little bloke for you, yes You. As long as you don’t change your name, it will be always the same little bloke for you. Have a go, post in the comments and see your little dude today.

The technical bit

This really wouldn’t have been possible without the wonderful Andreas Gohr who wrote the original MonsterID php code

Of course, he “adapted” an idea from a very clever bloke called Charles Darke who adapted an idea from another very clever bloke, Don Park, who came up with the idea of creating images from IP addresses. (Which forms the bases of the technology that Andreas developed) – really though, it’s just a load of images overlaid on-top of each other that anyone (just about) can do.

And there we go, Because my site actively pingsback all those sites, they will happily know that I’ve linked to the original sources for this concept and haven’t broken any creative commons licenses or such like.

Aren’t I an all round nice bloke eh?

Jade update

Apparently she’s now booked herself into a hippy commune called the Priory, so she’s a drug addict AND a racist.

Yay it works!

Thats me, And it shall never change…

You can look through old comment threads to see different people.

That’s a cool idea!

That’s a good idea! I like today’s icon.

Today’s icon is rather good isn’t it?

You can see a random selection by clicking this link

Ahhh, but every time I add something new, it alters everyones image. Sorry everyone! :)

Hmm. How about using something like that tool police uses to construct faces? But then it might be disturbing to see someone else’s face next to one’s name.

wow, Don’s commented on my website! cool! *bow bow* I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy.

I like the idea actually, I thought something similar for alien beings. When I was a kid I used to draw the top / middle / bottom of an alien and then interchange them for many different variants.

What can I say? I had a whacky childhood.

>And there we go, Because my site actively pingsback all those sites, they will happily know that I’ve linked to the original sources for this concept

I should really implement a pingback server so I get all these pings that people are apparently sending me! ;)

Woo, another person who I named has visited my website. *bow bow* etc etc.

Looks like Charles is a skateboarding, frying pan wielding (for that’s what it is) purple dude.

Chris, just to make you happy: *comment* ;-) Now you have all three of us in your comments. I really like your little blokes. Great to see my implementation spread and create new offspring :-)

Yay!, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside

:)

Thanks for the .php code Andreas, it’s genius and I’ll no doubt be using it again in the future to make some other different things….. (Don’t know what yet!)

cooool monsters!

what do I look like?

Now that is a super idea. People will comment just to get a look at their ‘Bloke’. Very nice, very nice indeed.

This is super. Thanx to Andy & Marko MrdjenoviÄ? for this.
Very very interesting.

I want to know how do i look like :)

this is very cute

Sony pictures meep?

Just wanted to see what my avatar looked like… great idea!

Just wanted to see my guy :-P Awesome idea!

Just testing this shit out

great idea, testing

Seeing my guy. Test.