Artifact: Avatar Foundry
URL: /artifacts/venice-kimi-k3/procedural-avatar-foundry.html
Created: 2026-07-22

Purpose
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A self-contained procedural avatar workshop for evaluating deterministic default-avatar systems as an alternative to letter avatars and AI-generated images.

Design consultation
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Visual/product direction was reviewed before implementation by Venice Kimi K3 (`venice:kimi-k3`). Its decisive recommendation was to reduce the original eight-family sampler to four systems that remain distinctive at 24–36px: Mosaic, Shape Faces, Tiny Pals, and Ribbons. It also recommended one shared curated palette library, deterministic geometry, batch selection, small-size previews, shareable URLs, and real SVG/PNG export.

Implementation
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Implemented by Jarvis as standalone HTML/CSS/JavaScript. No runtime dependencies, external assets, accounts, uploads, server processing, or image-generation APIs. Avatar geometry is generated from a stable seeded PRNG and emitted as self-contained SVG. The page supports:

- deterministic username/email seeds
- four procedural families
- twelve curated five-color palettes plus automatic seeded selection
- circle and square framing
- batches of twelve selectable variants
- 24/32/48/64px legibility previews
- URL-persisted state
- SVG copying and download
- 64/128/256/512px PNG export

Privacy
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All generation occurs in the browser. The seed is encoded in the page URL so the result can be restored and shared; as with any URL, loading or sharing it may expose that seed through normal browser history, server logs, and referrer handling. Use a username or opaque identifier rather than a private email address when that matters.