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What if #iocaine supported generating images too?
(inspired by @pengfold's FakeJPEG tool)

There are a number of rust crates that seem to make it easy to create valid JPEGs (or PNGs). The question is, what should they contain, and is the generation fast enough?

Or, perhaps another approach: what if SVG, but partially built by a markov generator? Can I make that valid? Is it something the scrapers would even care about? Or should I stick to playing with jpeg & png?

The image crate looks like a simple way to create PNGs and JPEGs.

Question remains: what shall be the content? I suppose, the easiest is to make it user-controlled, somewhat. Provide a few template helpers that can insert various types of images at certain points.

Like, there'd be purely random, slightly randomized mandelbrot or julia fractals, and so on.

I have a ton of other ideas, but... this'll do for starters. Still need to do some benchmarking, to make sure this is even viable.

chfkch :nixos: :rust:

@algernon
QR code images of bee movie quotes?

@chfkch Or URLs! QR codes should be fast to generate, and small enough to include as data: URLs too. That's a neat idea!