I can think of about 30 people who needs this, and thats without think about it.
Very nice work Tom, I think you can get QR codes with 40% redundancy if required. regards Roger On 7 February 2012 09:45, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > I've been playing around making barnstars. And I think I've made a > particularly good one of interest to all of you QR-hungry Wikipedians. > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barnstar-QR.png > > It's a barnstar to celebrate particularly clever uses of QR codes. The > QR code in the barnstar is for the article on QR codes. It uses > QRpedia links, so you can go read the most appropriate version of the > article for you. > > Only it's got a hole in the middle. Because, duh, it's a barnstar. > Thanks to QR codes error correction capabilities, my Android phone is > able to read the QR code even missing a chunk in the middle (it uses H > level error correction, which means that 30% of the QR code can be > removed and it still can work*). > > It still works, even though the rest of the barnstar is noisy with > repeated QR-like noise. And there's some background barnstar imagery > behind the QR code. > > If you've read, say, Terence Eden's blog posts about making good QR > codes, this one breaks almost all the rules. It's a barnstar first and > a usable QR code second. But it's a usable QR code... just about. > > * The error correction is what lets the BBC create a QR code with > their logo in the middle - > http://2d-code.co.uk/images/bbc-logo-in-qr-code.gif > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Roger Bamkin Chair WMUK <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board> 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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