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+Pydenticon
+==========
+
+Pydenticon is a small utility library that can be used for deterministically
+generating identicons based on the hash of provided data.
+
+The implementation is a port of the Sigil identicon implementation from:
+
+* https://github.com/cupcake/sigil/
+
+Pydenticon provides a couple of extensions of its own when compared to the
+original Sigil implementation, like:
+
+* Ability to supply custom digest algorithms (allowing for larger identicons if
+  digest provides enough entropy).
+* Ability to specify a rectangle for identicon size..