Monday, April 7, 2008

Japanese Barcodes

"A barcode(also called UPC symbol) is a machine-readable representation of information (usually dark ink on a light background to create high and low reflectance which is converted to 1s and 0s). Originally, barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of printed parallel lines, but today they also come in patterns of dots, concentric circles, and text codes hidden within images. Barcodes can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers or scanned from an image by special software."

Here are some creative barcodes made by a Japanese firm D-Barcode.


 

Read more about barcodes.

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