This looks great! I also gave it a try, uploaded a transparent png (which was converted to black, fair enough, guess there's no good default choice for all cases) and scanned the pretty QR code with my phone: Flawless. Thanks for building and sharing this, I love to see QR codes become more readable

This is cool, but what's the use of error correction when you're deliberately introducing noise?

In my experience, these art-y qr codes are more challenging to scan than traditional plain variants, especially in real life scenarios where you don't always have a perfectly clear image

Hei ! Just wanted to drop by to say that i tested this with a black and white logo that I had generated ; sounded like the worst case scenario ; it handled it flawlessly ; the picture didn't look the best - but the job was done and it worked. Bookmarked it will definitely use it if i need to !

Is this a commercial project or an open-source ?

This is absolutely awesome!

Well done.

Reminds me of perforated LSD sheets (https://d2cbg94ubxgsnp.cloudfront.net/Pictures/2000xAny/9/1/...)

I've been writing about (and using) QR codes for a couple of decades. I love the innovation that happens within the bounds of the specification.

One problem that I foresee with this is that they don't look like QR codes. People are now used to looking for a specific monochrome pattern to point their phone towards.

There was a competitor to QR - MS Tag - which tried something similar. Their codes were able to be integrated into designs without the "ugliness" of QR codes. The problem is, no one knew they were there!

See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2010/11/ms-tags-vs-qr-codes/#not-as...

The corner targets are still visible in Nitro's codes - so hopefully people will spot them. But I think it is OK to embrace the ugly. Not everything needs to be smothered in your corporate branding. Something which is standardised across multiple things is useful.

I wrote a blog post about QR codes with an overview of image techniques like this and a bunch of links to different implementations if anyone would like to see more things like this.

https://kylezhe.ng/posts/crafting_qr_codes#image-techniques links directly to that section and skips the fluff about how QR codes work

I highly recommend checking out https://cgv.cs.nthu.edu.tw/projects/Recreational_Graphics/MQ... which uses word clouds with QR codes and looks crazy cool

Title reminded me of these https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i4WR5ULH1ZZYl8Watf3EPw

Over on Mastodon we've just recently been having some fun with these techniques:

Dithering: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/115035614385265413

Mondrian: https://mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunningham/115049490241833844

Hand Drawn: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/115056697540191327

Bad Apple: https://pony.social/@luna/115057532794342459

White Noise: https://pony.social/@luna/115058126613306302