Now *that* is cool.

[da]

Three years ago, I read about 9-block quilt patterns and I turned it into a perl program and article, purely for amusement-value. And a Christmas present.

Someone else has taken the original idea and made them into a security feature for web discussion-boards to prevent spoofing. It's a one-way hash from someone's IP address into a unique picture. Quite a clever idea!

I noticed a few weeks ago when these shapes started showing up on wordpress blogs. It seems they've added it as a standard wordpress plugin option. It will take me a while before I don't do a double-take each time I see them though. :)

Comments

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Apparently my first version was four years ago, not three. Yegads, that feels like it must've been a while ago.

[cypherpunk95.livejournal.com]

A fractal version of this idea, from 1998.

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

I just LOVE what a geek you are! LOVE it! You made me smile.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Nifty.

They look like a screensaver I used to use on my Amiga. ;)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

P'shaw. *grin* Thanks.

If you liked that, you might also like the Leaves of Dianetics Personality Test, which is roughly as aimless, and certainly as geeky.

Cool indeed

[newdoorknobs.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

And nice to finally know why those little quilt squares are suddenly showing up all over wordpress; I'd been wondering about that.

[ckd]

Neat!

[driftingfocus.livejournal.com]

You're making me want to make a quilt, now...

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

And you do know that if you recruit 10 more people into quilting, you get the toaster oven, right? :-P