michiel | 2 years ago | 12 comments | 13 likes | 1.2K views

Tintin, Ulli, Alex-Raymond T. and 10 others like this!

Some of you have asked for QR codes with a hole in the centre where you can place a logo.

The interesting truth is that the QR standard does NOT feature such a style!!! What it does feature is error correction: when part of the picture is dirty, blurry or invisible, it can still be read because the information is stored multiple times. This system can be abused/hacked by deliberately adding errors, like for example placing your logo in the centre.

You can experiment with this yourself by editing a QR code in a paint app and testing the result with your QR reader app. You will be amazed how much you can delete!

QR dialog

To automate this, BluffTitler version 15.6.0.1 features a HOLE checkbox in the QR dialog.

This dialog is displayed in 3 situations:
-when you click on the QR button in the MEDIA > CHANGE TEXTURE... dialog
-when you click on the QR button in the MEDIA > CHANGE VECTOR... dialog
-when you click on the QR button in the MEDIA > CHANGE GLYPH... dialog

Examples

The show of the screenshot comes with the latest installer:
Picture\QR_Picture2.bt

More examples can be found in the Picture and Vector folders.

QR code layer?

Notice that there's no dedicated QR code layer. Instead it's implemented as a QR button in the MEDIA > CHANGE TEXTURE..., MEDIA > CHANGE VECTOR... and MEDIA > CHANGE GLYPH... dialogs. This way it can easily be used in all layer types that support textures and/or vectors. For example:
-create a waving QR code with the waving flag layer
-texture your model layer with a QR code
-use a QR code as a mirror with the mirror layer

Thank you!

Thank you for your requests. Version 15.6.0.1 can now be downloaded from the download page:

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