Hashbow

Hashbow,
originally uploaded by L. A. Price.

So I had an idea this afternoon, about making visually distinct representations of files based on their sha-1 hashes

It took me about 20 minutes of fooling around before I got the first version working. Another half hour of fiddling with it, and reading the PIL documentation produced this.

I'm not quite satisfied with it as is.
I think it might need a somewhat more complex image generator that gives distinctive shape as well as color.