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Store data on paper with Twibright Optar

Store data on paper with Twibright Optar

Posted Jul 26, 2007 22:51 UTC (Thu) by elicriffield (subscriber, #33738)
In reply to: Store data on paper with Twibright Optar by eli
Parent article: Store data on paper with Twibright Optar

Hey i thought i was eli.....

I don't know about the color requirements but seems like you could make pictures that don't look to abnormal, maybe more like a painting that would have 100k of data in them.

It'd be a neat trick for an album cover.

Eli Criffield


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Store data on paper with Twibright Optar

Posted Jul 26, 2007 23:24 UTC (Thu) by eli (subscriber, #11265) [Link]

Hey i thought i was eli.....

Heh, so did I. ;)

Eli Carter

Store data on paper with Twibright Optar

Posted Jul 29, 2007 9:07 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Heh! You could even encode an image in an otherwise normal album cover, and in the encoded image (e.g. a PNG) you could also encode another image. Ad nauseam...

I don't think you could create an auto-encoding image: one which when decoded yields the same image, but it's an interesting problem to be sure.

Store data on paper with Twibright Optar

Posted Aug 4, 2007 13:29 UTC (Sat) by pimlottc (subscriber, #44833) [Link]

PARC has a (non-free) 2D barcode system called Dataglyphs, composed of patterns of simple fore- and back-slashes, which can be used as halftone dots, changing their thickness, lengths and colors as needed to render an image. It's very nice and unobtrusive, especially at high resolution. There's a bunch of example images on their webpage and even an interactive demo page where you can encode and decode your own test images.

The density is not as good - 1 KB/inch^2 @ 600 dpi (comes to 96KB for an A4 page) - but the simplicity of the patterns makes it fade easily into the background and allows for a good amount of alteration for aesthetic purposes which still being machine-recognizable.

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