the creative and the engineer
Who said QR Codes are dead? At least in Russia they don’t think so as you should if you build a cathedral out of them?
At the thirteenth International Architecture Exhibition during the Venice Biennale. they present a Dome build out of QR-Codes. Each QR-Code links to a picture and lights up periodically. All visitors are given Tablet PCs that help to decipher the codes and see the images.
[via dezeen.com]
QArt Coder is an online tool that allows to embed images into QR Codes.
QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building roof, volleyball bikini, belt buckle, or airplane banner) to load a web site on a cell phone instead of having to “type” in a URL.
QR codes are encoded using Reed-Solomon error-correcting codes, so that a QR scanner does not have to see every pixel correctly in order to decode the content. The error correction makes it possible to introduce a few errors (fewer than the maximum that the algorithm can fix) in order to make an image. QArt Coder exploits that to embed an image into the QR code.
