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I'm curious how many variations robohash uses. It seems either you've got a very wide variety of custom graphics elements, or only a few elements and have to draw a very wide number of images to fit in them.

Each two digits of hex is 255, and I count 16 pairs, but can think of only 8 elements in the photos (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, head, body, arms, background).

If it's those 8 elements and they're derived from four digits in the hash, then you need 65,535 or so different ears.

I'm guessing the solution to this is to reduce the hash further... so you get more repetition where two texts produce the same robot, but apparently they've not made it too bad.

How far did robohash reduce it? Or how far should one reduce it? How many images does a robohash art set have?




It depends on which set you use.

There are three sets-

The default set has 10 base colors, 10 base faces, 10 Bodies, 10 Eyes, 10 Accessories, 10 Mouths.

There are then 2 sets of 10 backgrounds.

So 3(10^6)(210) ~= 60,000,000




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