Show HN: Logoglyph, a random SVG generator written in Lua

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Hello! I did this to learn Lua, figured it would probably help to get other people critiquing, harshness fully expected. I know it's probably fairly clumsy, it's my first time doing anything in Lua, and also my first time writing anything that emits SVG or other XML.

So, what do you think?

Could you add some examples of generated logos on the github page? It would be nice to have an idea of the result without having to run the code.

Right, don't know what I was thinking. Samples are up now. Some are a mess, of course, but many are nice (if minimalistic) or would be quite nice if cleaned up a little manually.

Related/warning... GitHub claims the file is invalid, and refuses to render it. I'm not sure why; they rendered fine for me locally.

> GitHub claims the file is invalid, and refuses to render it.

It should work if you add the SVG namespace (<svg xmlns="…"> attribute).

Yep, it works, I opened a PR in your repo. :)

Most images seem really… random to me, but some of them could probably be actually used, at least as a base file/idea for tweaking in a graphics editor.

Thanks for that. And yes, it's random - that's the idea. My planned subsequent project is a web-app that will allow people to rate the images (pair everything with everything and see which is higher-rated), which I will give several batches with different parameters to see if some settings tend to produce better images than others.

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