"Am I right that the image doesn't actually contain the code, as in encode it, but rather has a blurred, stylized version of the code?" AIUI that's correct. Th

"Am I right that the image doesn't actually contain the code, as in encode it, but rather has a blurred, stylized version of the code?" AIUI that's correct. The code is in the picture, not in the binary representation of the image. The code generates a particular encoding of the picture, but the code is visible in the image regardless of that (and even if you have a printed version of the image).