Glitch City Laboratories Archives

Glitch City Laboratories closed on 1 September 2020 (announcement). This is an archived copy of a thread from Glitch City Laboratories Forums.

You can join Glitch City Research Institute to ask questions or discuss current developments.

You may also download the archive of this forum in .tar.gz, .sql.gz, or .sqlite.gz formats.

General Discussion

Custom Glitch City QR Codes - Page 1

Custom Glitch City QR Codes

Posted by: GARYM9
Date: 2012-07-26 19:25:15
QR codes are codes able to be used by scanners/smartphones to link to a site just by scanning/taking a picture of the code.

I made some for glitchcity, using the plain glitchcity.info link which *will work* properly in the future.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/BT73e.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/3yQwq.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/rfvYS.png[/img]

Yes, you can use colors in these and make them more fancy, however I felt like using R/B's trainer sprite.

Re: Custom Glitch City QR Codes

Posted by: Tsukuu
Date: 2012-07-26 19:39:23
Lol it works.

Re: Custom Glitch City QR Codes

Posted by: Abwayax
Date: 2012-07-26 22:12:42
Those are pretty sweet. I didn't know you could include graphics like that in them.

Re: Custom Glitch City QR Codes

Posted by: GARYM9
Date: 2012-07-26 23:00:47

Those are pretty sweet. I didn't know you could include graphics like that in them.


The way QR codes are made allows for up to 30% destruction of the original image before the QR code becomes unreadable.  You can exploit this to create custom QR codes.  Also, the reader doesn't see color, it only sees white or black so anything close to white (or on the 'light' spectrum) stays white and darker colors turn black and "half pixels" or "quarter pixels" as a light or dark full pixel (when scaled 4x/2x or the like).

You can also customize them in fancy ways like these or like this