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Looks like origami

It's very pretty, and thanks for providing translations. Any chance I could get a green or pink identicon for "Anita"? Or blue. Anything but brownish-orange?

Very cool. Inspiring! And what does that say up there? (I am very tired)

Anita, I'm afraid I'd have to invent a whole new logographic system to change your name. Of course, it's quite easy, just a change in the salt. But I feel worldmaking, even when easy, shouldn't be done lightly. In the meantime, "Atinta" is green and looks like fishies chasing each other in a circle. What do you think?

Erik, it says "La Nature est un temple ou (no accent, i can't handle accents, i suck) de vivants piliers / Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles". Silly Snap popups hide the normal popups.

A pretty revenge indeed! I like it a lot!

Just typed Kai Carver - Paris (France) and got this pretty set! Cool!

How about filing for a patent? You Perl geek? :p

"Atinta" is a pretty character, but "Nita" is too, and it comes to me more naturally, since that's what I wanted people to call me for the first 25 years of my life (once I got over the "nita's a pin" jokes). Atinta sounds like somebody in an Ursula K. LeGuin book.

The "I" identicon is quite lovely. Back to the Jungians...

Yuwen, I can't patent this because it's not my idea.

Anita, I find every letter of the alphabet extremely beautiful. I like especially: H, maple leaf variation, N, doves flying around a globe, S, very flashy, K, crazy spazztika, U, madman gesticulating, T, Chase logo variation, B, a rose, Z, plain but funny (where did the corners go? oh, they're dancing in the middle)...

Basically, I love squares. It would be interesting to have a different writing system based on hexagonal forms, to get star of David variations... I'd have to study Don Park's rendering algorithm more closely.

I believe what Anita meant to write is:

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The sign for "lovely" is rather austere. Maybe I'm overwhelmed by those Christian overtones, but I bet the Chinese have done a better job of illustrating "lovely," over 5,000 years. The Jungians would be happy with their mandala, though. (I tried three times to copy and paste the "lovely" identicon, but it didn't work. Sniff.) Well, back to Women of the World (oy, not in the punk sense - hey, do your identicons understand Yinglish? Must try.)

You may find lots of translations for "lovely" in Chinese. The most common one is in 2 or 3 characters: 可愛 (ke3 ai4) or 可愛的 (ke3 ai4 de), depending on the context.