TransparantQR
| Project TransparantQR | |
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| Transparant QR code | |
| Status | Completed |
| Contact | cmpxchg |
| Last Update | 2022-04-27 |
Origin
Based on an idea of Zack Freedman twitter link
Improvement
Make it work with a full-color moving video in the back.
- Use same large markers
- Make them a little more transparent (25%)
- With contrast of the large markers, reader will construct lines along which the blocks are sample
- Reduce size of blocks to about 1/9th of original blocksize
- Make everything around the block transparent
- Result: working transparent QR code!
Does not work on all readers, zbarimg fails on the PNG, but could be due to PNG alpha channel interpreted in the wrong way.
Resulting code distribution
It is a patch to GPL code, so modified source must be published. For convenience, patch file is encoded in QR as well. Commit message redacted and reduced, xz compression, and it fits!
Sourcecode patch to libqrencode: (xz compressed patchfile)
Additional changes: Reduce location_ishiconstrast() remove the line 6 tests for even more area, seems to be allowed on most phone-based QR readers.
User interface
qrencode -o out.png -T insertyoururlorotherdatahere
will output a PNG32 file out.png
Building
building yourself: git clone https://git.sr.ht/~cmpxchgable/libqrencode and follow same instructions as original
Sample image
Below transparent, PNG32 format file can be overlayed on any graphic and redirects to http://revspace.nl/
