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IanHayhurst rated 3 months ago- I keep seeing these designs... I finally looked it up. A 2-dimensional barcode thingie (that can be scanned by a reader you can download onto many phones) you can encode URLs or other information into them
- SecretEngineer rated 4 months ago
Secret Engineer. Rendered in funny digital stew. You are going to start seeing the above patterns nearly everywhere as we continue to bum rides along the digital/information superhighway. (oooo...the information superhighway: now there's a concept for ya!) In fact, if you live in Japan, you see these on your toilet paper. Yes, they track your poo in Japan. I'm surprised you didn't know that. The Secret Engineer has been playing with QR codes (a Japanese-invented bar-code-like thing) that are, in essence, a 2D matrix that can be decoded at high speed by mobile phones and can store a variety of content like URLs, (the above code stores this url, http://secretengineer.stumbleupon.com), or any other information that you would like to encode. Then, you can put these (maybe as stickers, or painted) on or in your artwork, in magazines, spray painted on walls, or up your lover's....never mind. You can download a QR code reader to your mobile phone HERE and then, when you see a pattern like the one above, point your phone cam at it. Your phone will do the rest. Email me for the QR codes of me naked in the shower. No! Wait! Don't. QR codes can store much more information that regular bar codes. I bet those idiots who tattooed themselves with bar codes as a statement about the de-humanization of our society and the rise of corporate culture feel pretty stupid about now. Anyways, I digress. According to Denso-Wave, the company that created QR, traditional bar codes can only store about 20 digits while QR can store up to several hundred times more information and different character types. Beyond the typical marketing uses for QR, which, trust me, you will become absolutely sick of over the next two years, there have been some cool and even mischievous uses of QR. I believe artists will find fun uses for QR up until the novelty wears off. I really don't know why I am stumbling this. Seriously, I have other outlets for stuff like this. I need to get back to my core competency: making fun of myself.
- jasoncalacanis rated 4 months ago
- qr stands for "quick response" in these two dimensional bar codes from Japan.
