Barcodes on your living room wall?

While we do appreciate the convenience of barcode technologies, it just appears that they have crossed their boundaries as mere data to be scanned, and are making their foray into our living rooms – as art forms.

A newly launched website, Barcode Gallery (barcodegallery.com) is letting users create customized and personalized pieces of modern art leveraging the QR barcode technology.

The end result is the creation of a ready-to-hang piece of colorful modern art that contains an embedded message that can be decoded by observers using camera-equipped smartphones.

Users with a camera-equipped smartphone, such as Apple’s iPhone, are able to use any number of free barcode scanning applications to decode the image.

Here’s how it works:

Image courtesy: barcodegallery.com

The QR code used in Barcode Gallery’s products, is a 2-dimensional barcode format that utilizes a pattern of boxes and squares to encode the message contents. While barcodes have been traditionally black and white, today’s camera-based scanning applications are able to decode multicolored barcodes that have an acceptable level of contrast.

Additionally, customers may choose to have their art produced on ready-to-hang canvas or on ready-to-frame archival paper in sizes ranging from 10-inch to 40-inch square.

What makes this art unique is the ability to encode a text message into the artwork itself, which is only revealed when scanned by a smartphone. Barcode Gallery allows up to 300 characters of text providing the opportunity to embed a favorite quote, poem, or personal message.

SOURCE Barcode Gallery