A simple way to render an icon based on a hash

hash-to-image.go

/*
Copyright (c) 2013, Damian Gryski <damian@gryski.com>
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// Package identicon creates simple visual hashes of data as PNGs.
/*
For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon and https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons
*/
package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"hash"
	"image"
	"image/color"
	"image/png"
	"os"

	"github.com/dchest/siphash"
)

func main() {
	r := New7x7([]byte("hi, this is the key"))
	res := r.Render([]byte("aaa dorld, how are you today?"))
	fmt.Println(res)

	img, _, err := image.Decode(bytes.NewBuffer(res))
	if err != nil {
		// Handle error
	}

	f, err := os.Create("outimage.png")
	if err != nil {
		// Handle error
	}
	defer f.Close()

	// Encode to `PNG` with `DefaultCompression` level
	// then save to file
	err = png.Encode(f, img)
	if err != nil {
		// Handle error
	}
}

// Renderer allows rendering of data as a PNG identicon
type Renderer interface {
	// Render generates a PNG from data
	Render(data []byte) []byte
}

type identicon struct {
	key    []byte
	sqSize int
	rows   int
	cols   int
	h      hash.Hash64
}

const xborder = 35
const yborder = 35
const maxX = 420
const maxY = 420

// New5x5 creates a new 5-by-5 identicon renderer using 'key' as the hash salt
func New5x5(key []byte) Renderer {
	return &identicon{
		sqSize: 70,
		rows:   5,
		cols:   5,
		h:      siphash.New(key),
	}
}

// New7x7 creates a new 7-by-7 identicon renderer using 'key' as the hash salt
func New7x7(key []byte) Renderer {
	return &identicon{
		sqSize: 50,
		rows:   7,
		cols:   7,
		h:      siphash.New(key),
	}
}

func (icon *identicon) Render(data []byte) []byte {

	icon.h.Reset()
	icon.h.Write(data)
	h := icon.h.Sum64()

	nrgba := color.NRGBA{
		R: uint8(h),
		G: uint8(h >> 8),
		B: uint8(h >> 16),
		A: 0xff,
	}
	h >>= 24

	img := image.NewPaletted(image.Rect(0, 0, maxX, maxY), color.Palette{color.NRGBA{0xf0, 0xf0, 0xf0, 0xff}, nrgba})

	sqx := 0
	sqy := 0

	pixels := make([]byte, icon.sqSize)
	for i := 0; i < icon.sqSize; i++ {
		pixels[i] = 1
	}

	for i := 0; i < icon.rows*(icon.cols+1)/2; i++ {

		if h&1 == 1 {

			for i := 0; i < icon.sqSize; i++ {
				x := xborder + sqx*icon.sqSize
				y := yborder + sqy*icon.sqSize + i
				offs := img.PixOffset(x, y)
				copy(img.Pix[offs:], pixels)

				x = xborder + (icon.cols-1-sqx)*icon.sqSize
				offs = img.PixOffset(x, y)
				copy(img.Pix[offs:], pixels)
			}
		}

		h >>= 1
		sqy++
		if sqy == icon.rows {
			sqy = 0
			sqx++
		}
	}

	var buf bytes.Buffer

	png.Encode(&buf, img)

	return buf.Bytes()
}