pyavagen 0.3.3

Generation of customizable avatars

Generation of customizable avatars.

Requirements:

• Python 3.3+
• Pillow

Installation:

pip install pyavagen

Avatar types

For avatar generation using the Avatar class.

Arguments:

• kwargs - keyword arguments that are passed to specified avatar_class.
• avatar_type - avatar type that will be generates an image.

Types:

1. pyavagen.SQUARE_AVATAR or 'square'
2. pyavagen.CHAR_AVATAR or 'char'
3. pyavagen.CHAR_SQUARE_AVATAR or 'char_square'

Avatar types description is given below.

Char avatar

Draws a character on background with single color.

Usage:

import pyavagen


avatar = pyavagen.Avatar(pyavagen.CHAR_AVATAR, size=500, string="Paul")
avatar.generate().save('avatar.png')

Arguments:

• size - size of output image. The integer type.
• string - first chars of two first words that separated whitespaces. For example from string ‘John Paul’ draws “JP”. If passed an one word then draws a first char of this word. For example from string ‘John’ draws “J”. The string type.
• font - TrueType or OpenType font file. Path to font file. Default Comfortaa-Regular.
• background_color - background color. If not passed that a will be a random color from color_list.
• font_size - size of font. The integer type. Has default value.
• font_color - color of font. The string type. Default white.
• font_outline - Outline of character. Default false.
• color_list - list of colors from which will be generating colors for background. Default pyavagen.COLOR_LIST_FLAT.

Square avatar

Draws squares with different colors.

Usage:

import pyavagen


avatar = pyavagen.Avatar(pyavagen.SQUARE_AVATAR, size=500)
avatar.generate().save('avatar.png')

Arguments:

• size - size of output image. The integer type.
• squares_on_axis - number of squares on axis. The integer type. Default random value from 3 to 4.
• blur_radius - blur radius. Used PIL.ImageFilter.GaussianBlur.The integer type. Default 1.
• rotate - image rotate. The integer type. Default random rotation.
• border_size - border size of square. The integer type. Default 0.
• border_color - border color of squares. The string type. Default black.
• color_list - list of colors from which will be generating colors for squares. By default a set of flat colors (pyavagen.COLOR_LIST_FLAT). If color_list passed as an empty list then will be generation a random color. There is also list of colors in material style - pyavagen.COLOR_LIST_MATERIAL.

Char square avatar

Draws a character on background with squares with different colors.

Usage:

import pyavagen


avatar = pyavagen.Avatar(pyavagen.CHAR_SQUARE_AVATAR, size=500, string="Jack")
avatar.generate().save('avatar.png')

Arguments:

The same arguments as for Square avatar and Char avatar.

Testing

Execute tox from the project root.