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- This made me wonder if you could do it with color and apparently you can: https://1mentat.github.io/qr-code-shenanigans/by mentat
- You can also run animations in QR codes: https://cgv.cs.nthu.edu.tw/Projects/Recreational_Graphics/Ha...
So, technically, you can run Doom inside a QR code?
by zahrevsky - I always think of Russ Cox’s blog posts as canonical here: https://research.swtch.com/qartby zellyn
- These are also very cool: https://antfu.me/posts/ai-qrcode
Diffusion image generation constrained to also be a valid QR code
by petters - By the same author: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/115056697540191327
- This reminds me of car safety features, how drivers have become more complacent to offset the benefits. QR codes were made to be robust in the face of errors, but over time this has been eaten into for aesthetic purposes. Businesses commonly put a logo in the center, eating up some error correction budget. This likely has a similar effect.by gblargg
- Russ Cox’s QArt Codes[0] modifies how the URL is encoded to embed an image while keeping the QR code fully valid, without relying on error correction.
[0] https://research.swtch.com/qart
Related QArt discussions on HN: [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15213044 (2017-09-10, 61 points, 6 comments) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3836935 (2012-04-13, 56 points, 9 comments) [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549772 (2014-11-03, 56 points, 4 comments)
by 0sp - You can use colour as well: https://janglingpointer.github.io/Image_To_QR/
The guy that made that did a writeup on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/1v52x96/
by unkl_