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This is great. I did something very similar with a laser printer and a scanner many years ago. I wrote a script that generated pages of colored blocks and spent
by geoffeg 4y ago
This is great. I did something very similar with a laser printer and a scanner many years ago. I wrote a script that generated pages of colored blocks and spent some time figuring out how much redundancy I needed on each page to account for the scanner's resolution. I think I saw something similar here or on github a few years ago.
- lifthrasiir 4y agoSearching HN for "paper backup" gives a lot of existing solutions, in fact too many that I don't know which one you saw.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoSo you invented QR codes?
- geoffeg 4y agoOverly complicated, color QR codes.
- banana_giraffe 4y agoReminds me of "Cauzin Softstrip", the format some computer magazines used back in the day to distribute BASIC programs, or even executables. Random example from an issue of Byte: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05/page/n432/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05/page/n432/...