Silliness Idea: Morphing Karmic Avatars

nekokami · 01-22-2009, 11:45 AM

Inspired by the little dragon sig game I've been playing, I was thinking about a service that would allow one to register for a "morphing" avatar. The idea would be that you'd register and get a link to a gif, and the more views the gif got, the more the image would grow and change. For example, you might start with a seed, which would sprout, then put out a few leaves... and eventually you'd have a forest with trees, and perhaps a few unicorns or something.

There could be a number of different base images, and a certain amount of randomization in which elements would get added, so hopefully everyone's avatars would each be at least somewhat different. You could use this remote avatar on any online forum or blog that allows remote avatars.

The "karma" part comes in this way: ideally someone could click on the avatar, and add karma to it, just as we do here at MR, but I don't think most forum software will allow us to make the avatars clickable (or allow any other fancy scripting). So there would be a link to put in your sig line like "Click here to help my avatar grow", and clicking it would take a viewer to a page where they could add karma to that user, possibly in different categories. Visitor karma would make an avatar grow more than just repeated views. But the cool thing is that anyone visiting from any site could add karma, and it would display wherever your avatar displays.

It was just a little mental doodle I was thinking about as I was dozing off last night, but if anyone else likes the idea, I might pursue it....

pshrynk · 01-22-2009, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Inspired by the little dragon sig game I've been playing, I was thinking about a service that would allow one to register for a "morphing" avatar. The idea would be that you'd register and get a link to a gif, and the more views the gif got, the more the image would grow and change. For example, you might start with a seed, which would sprout, then put out a few leaves... and eventually you'd have a forest with trees, and perhaps a few unicorns or something.

There could be a number of different base images, and a certain amount of randomization in which elements would get added, so hopefully everyone's avatars would each be at least somewhat different. You could use this remote avatar on any online forum or blog that allows remote avatars.

The "karma" part comes in this way: ideally someone could click on the avatar, and add karma to it, just as we do here at MR, but I don't think most forum software will allow us to make the avatars clickable (or allow any other fancy scripting). So there would be a link to put in your sig line like "Click here to help my avatar grow", and clicking it would take a viewer to a page where they could add karma to that user, possibly in different categories. Visitor karma would make an avatar grow more than just repeated views. But the cool thing is that anyone visiting from any site could add karma, and it would display wherever your avatar displays.

It was just a little mental doodle I was thinking about as I was dozing off last night, but if anyone else likes the idea, I might pursue it....

That sounds cool! certainly more elevating than what you are putting up with in the Dragoon Cave!

zelda_pinwheel · 01-22-2009, 03:06 PM

just as long as there is no soft-shell sickness involved, it would be really annoying to see everybody's avatar hidden by fog...

ravenne · 01-22-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

just as long as there is no soft-shell sickness involved, it would be really annoying to see everybody's avatar hidden by fog...

Inspired by Zelda´s avatars I would suggest that everybody starts naked; by adding karma to a person he or she will put on left and right socks. The more socks you wear the higher your karma.

pshrynk · 01-22-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

Inspired by Zelda´s avatars I would suggest that everybody starts naked; by adding karma to a person he or she will put on left and right socks. The more socks you wear the higher your karma.

I would think that quite the oposite direction would be more popular around here...

zelda_pinwheel · 01-22-2009, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

Inspired by Zelda´s avatars I would suggest that everybody starts naked; by adding karma to a person he or she will put on left and right socks. The more socks you wear the higher your karma.

i like it.

also we could have tall socks and short socks ; start with short socks which get taller as karma rises, then a second pair of short socks on top, they would grow taller as well, then a third pair... etc.

ravenne · 01-22-2009, 03:45 PM

At first all avatars show people (naked or not, pshrynk may decide). After certain amounts of time you spent in the lounge your avatar will mutate into a llama. Very slowly, of course (first you´ll get llama ears, then llama teeth, a llama nose, llama eyes and so on).

zelda_pinwheel · 01-22-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

At first all avatars show people (naked or not, pshrynk may decide). After certain amounts of time you spent in the lounge your avatar will mutate into a llama. Very slowly, of course (first you´ll get llama ears, then llama teeth, a llama nose, llama eyes and so on).

best idea yet ! (just don't forget the ffedora. after all, what is a llounge llama without a ffedora ?)

ravenne · 01-22-2009, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

best idea yet ! (just don't forget the ffedora. after all, what is a llounge llama without a ffedora ?)

Yes, but headdresses should be variable.

nekokami · 01-22-2009, 09:11 PM

I thought we morphed into cyborg pandas?

Definitely a variety of socks and headgear.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 01-22-2009, 09:16 PM

Hmm... Mighty Morphin' Karmic Avatars. I like it! Someone get Hasbro on the line.

nekokami · 01-22-2009, 10:05 PM

Oh, and definitely no "soft shell disease" nonsense.

zelda_pinwheel · 01-23-2009, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Oh, and definitely no "soft shell disease" nonsense.

the more i hear the better it sounds.

(i think there should be morphing into llamas *and* cyborg pandas !! it could be random, like the headwear.)

ShortNCuddlyAm · 01-23-2009, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

the more i hear the better it sounds.

(i think there should be morphing into llamas *and* cyborg pandas !! it could be random, like the headwear.)

You could have genetic engineering so you have the possibility of mutating into a cyborg llanda...

nekokami · 01-23-2009, 03:18 PM

Some kind of random silliness, definitely. I need to think about how to code the image manipulation so the parts all fit together well enough but everyone can end up with a different result.

01-22-2009, 11:45 AM	#1
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Idea: Morphing Karmic Avatars Inspired by the little dragon sig game I've been playing, I was thinking about a service that would allow one to register for a "morphing" avatar. The idea would be that you'd register and get a link to a gif, and the more views the gif got, the more the image would grow and change. For example, you might start with a seed, which would sprout, then put out a few leaves... and eventually you'd have a forest with trees, and perhaps a few unicorns or something. There could be a number of different base images, and a certain amount of randomization in which elements would get added, so hopefully everyone's avatars would each be at least somewhat different. You could use this remote avatar on any online forum or blog that allows remote avatars. The "karma" part comes in this way: ideally someone could click on the avatar, and add karma to it, just as we do here at MR, but I don't think most forum software will allow us to make the avatars clickable (or allow any other fancy scripting). So there would be a link to put in your sig line like "Click here to help my avatar grow", and clicking it would take a viewer to a page where they could add karma to that user, possibly in different categories. Visitor karma would make an avatar grow more than just repeated views. But the cool thing is that anyone visiting from any site could add karma, and it would display wherever your avatar displays. It was just a little mental doodle I was thinking about as I was dozing off last night, but if anyone else likes the idea, I might pursue it....

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01-22-2009, 03:06 PM	#3
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	just as long as there is no soft-shell sickness involved, it would be really annoying to see everybody's avatar hidden by fog...

01-22-2009, 03:45 PM	#7
ravenne Wizard Posts: 4,917 Karma: 1840619 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Munich, Germany Device: Kindle PW, PocketBook 360°, Cybook Gen3, iPad mini	At first all avatars show people (naked or not, pshrynk may decide). After certain amounts of time you spent in the lounge your avatar will mutate into a llama. Very slowly, of course (first you´ll get llama ears, then llama teeth, a llama nose, llama eyes and so on).

01-22-2009, 09:11 PM	#10
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I thought we morphed into cyborg pandas? Definitely a variety of socks and headgear.

01-22-2009, 09:16 PM	#11
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Hmm... Mighty Morphin' Karmic Avatars. I like it! Someone get Hasbro on the line.

01-22-2009, 10:05 PM	#12
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Oh, and definitely no "soft shell disease" nonsense.

01-23-2009, 03:18 PM	#15
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Some kind of random silliness, definitely. I need to think about how to code the image manipulation so the parts all fit together well enough but everyone can end up with a different result.