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Old ASCII Protocol Avatar Question

For anyone that remembers the protocol Avatar, (I'm pretty sure this was it's name) I'm trying to find information on it. All I've found so far, is that it's an ANSI style compression protocol, done by compressing common ANSI escape sequences. But, back in the day, (The early 90's) I swore I remembered that it was used to compress ASCI...

how to auto/random generate the "gravatars" like on StackOverflow?

How does Stack Overflow for users auto-generate the gravatars for those who do not create a picture or who have not created a Gravatar icon? Where did these avatars comes from? Duplicate of what is the algorithm used to generate those little gravatar identicon images? which is itself duplicate of How do you generate that default avat...

Are there human 3D models/libraries?

I'm a dance teacher and I was thinking of writing some code to produce 3D animations of dance moves from choreography stored in a database. The dancing to data model representation I could write but I know nothing about graphics programming. I wondered if anyone could recommend a library or similar of 3D human models, ideally with reali...

Can i request a MyOpenId persona's Avatar with dotNetOpenId?

Hi folks, some of my MyOpenId persona's have avatars. Is there any way to programmatically request them with dotNetOpenId, like i can request email, etc? I'm assuming it can't be done because i'm guessing they are not part of the standard openid schema? ...

Facebook user has no avatar, please help he find the reason and a possible workaround

I have a Facebook application and showing Facebook Connected users at my pages. But I see this particular user's avatar is just blank. So even Facebook's own "no photo" image is not showing as well as it's "f" logo in the bottom right. User ID: 1429277256 (Chantel) http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/s.php?k=100000080&id=1429277256 ...

What is the best way to upload user portrait

Stored in the database or file system ? And I need several different sizes. like 128*128, 96*96, 64*64 and so on. What is the best way to upload user portrait? ...

How to upload and show avatars in php?

Ok i want to load a Avatar with my users regso they can upload and make a profile page i have user reg and everything and im using a flat file in php? ...

Dojo dnd: Avatar positioning

Is it possible to change the positioning of the avatar with dojo toolkit's dnd api? At the moment, when dragging, the avatar of the dragged item appears to the right and below the mouse cursor. I want it to be in the same position as the mouse cursor. I ran some usability tests on my application, and most people seem to attempt to try an...

Best way to manage media in a web application

Hi all, I'm looking for the easiest and most user-friendly way to manage pictures and avatars in a web 2.0 application. For example to add an avatar to an news item or article. Thanks! ...

dojo drag and drop Avatar

i am using dojo drag and drop, its working fine, only problem i have is when i start dragging, cursor come little up and left from the Avatar. which look vary bad. is there any solution for that at least move can be inside the Avatar... any solution, css , tables etc... ...

Deciding which image format to use

I'm working on a web application that will allow users to upload profile pictures (avatars, basically). These images will be no bigger than 100 x 100 pixels and will be pictures of peoples' faces. We want to allow the user to upload various image formats, but we also want to convert them all to the same image format. What would be the b...

Preventing reflow when using jQuery UI "size" effect

I have a list of images like this: <ul class='blah'> <li><img src='...' /></li> <li><img src='...' /></li> <li><img src='...' /></li> <li><img src='...' /></li> </ul> And I have it styled to display as a horizontal list without bullet points. Kinda of like what you see on GitHub for followers (see http://github.com/chrislloyd)...

Img upload help

i need coding in PHP where only registered users can upload as many images as they want with the option of deleting them .One of their image goes in their profile next to his/her details. i want to store the images in server. ...

Procedural Avatar Generation

I'd like to implement a system that generates unique NxN blocks when given a MD5 hash as an input, currently I'm splitting the MD5 into sub-strings and just using them as Hex colour-codes, does anyone have any good ideas on systems I could use to generate these images? I've considered using the values as the constants in a Lorenz attrac...

How to access Google/Gmail/Gchat/Reader user icons

Hello, I'm building a Google Reader client and wonder if it's possible to access a user's profile image (aka avatar) directly. When I navigate to the images in Reader itself, I find that they point to URLs such as http://www.google.com/s2/photos/private/AIbEiAIAAABDCPaY2PPrqNnxZiILdmNhcmRfcGhvdG8qKDE3NTc5YmI2NzI3YmRjOTcwNDAzMmQxZWJjYzQyZ...

Drupal: Checking to see if User Has Picture

I'm displaying the userpicture on a node with this code here: <?php $user_load = user_load($node->uid); $imgtag = theme('imagecache', 'avatar_node', $user_load->picture, $user_load->name, $user_load->name); $attributes = array('attributes' => array('title' => t('View user profile.')), 'html' => TRUE); print l($imgtag, 'u...

How to get current user display image in Sharepoint?

Hi. I have a MOSS 2007 site. I want to display the display image (or avatar, whatever you call it) of the current user. Is it possible without writing a new web part? I don't have any MOSS 2007 installed computer that i can reach, so i can't develop web parts for Sharepointç (Or at at least i think) Thanks. P.S. By display image, i...

How can I make an ASP.NET MVC site as unit testable as an ASP.NET Web Forms site?

also, what day is today and why do I have an ugly unicorn as my avatar ;-) ...

WordPress MU: get the user ID of the blog's owner

Hi, I'd like to find some way to get the owner id of the blog's owner. I want to display some data from the owner, like: avatar, bio and link for his/her profile. I'm running WordPress MU + BP. Thanks, Mueen ...

Dojo.dnd.source generateText property not taking effect with avatars

When using dojo.dnd with avatars, dojo automatically creates a span containing the number of nodes in the avatar to make sure, there is something shown while dragging. From the source of dojo.dnd.avatar: (..) span = dojo.create("span", innerHTML: source.generateText ? this._generateText() : "" (..) _generateText: function(){ // sum...