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brundolf 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: An Animated QR Code of Bad Apple

Wait why do the QR codes actually look like the video frames? I interpreted this as "convert the binary of an arbitrary file into a series of QR codes". Is that just a coincidence?

TheCycoONE 9 months ago | [–]

They overlayed the edges of the video frames on the QR codes, and then the built in error correction compensates for the missing data. It's explained in the paper.

binary132 8 months ago | [–]

It’s like how QRs can be abused to appear like certain images, just a little stunt on top of the implementation

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