Use generated images if a software or projects has no logo / cover image?

[jmaassen]

Quite a few software items of NLeSC (and all items that are imported from external sources like 4TU) have no logo associated with them. That makes the overview page with the tiles quite boring.

We should investigate if we can generate images for these items for on the tiles, or have a set of images that we can choose from based on keywords, etc.

[ewan-escience]

We could use images from e.g.:

• https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2017_abstract-generator/index.php
• https://www.dicebear.com/
• https://generate-avatar.vercel.app

[jmaassen]

The dicebear one seems to generate nice avatars, also abstract ones. The shape ones are nice.

We could use the slug as the random seed to ensure we generate the same one every time.

The code is MIT and data is CC0 / CC-BY, so we can use it out of the box.

[jmaassen]

Some other options:

https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars
https://boringavatars.com/examples

https://github.com/dmester/jdenticon
https://jdenticon.com/

https://github.com/laurentpayot/minidenticons
https://laurentpayot.github.io/minidenticons/

For generating testing images for contributors / team members?
https://github.com/fangpenlin/avataaars-generator
https://github.com/dapi-labs/react-nice-avatar