Is curious that in all these years nobody have done a BARCODE filter

I have seen searching in Google Images for BARCODE ART of for BARCODE ARTIST that they are some artworks made based on barcodes, and it looks cool, but then I came to FF and seems that something simple as this is not available in the filter library, Is curious that in all these years nobody have done a BARCODE generator filter, maybe because it may not seen interesting, that this can be used in many multiple things

I think that you may use them for:

1 - Mask to put images inside only and white outside

2 - The opposite it to cut backgrounds with the barcode

3 - As source shape to be used as part of other filters, as source of mask or shapes

4 - Used as overlay with blend modes

5 - Using FF they can be distorted, eroded, break, modified, and many possible effects

6 - For 3D barcode using displacement map in FF and make the barcode follow a 3D shape made inside FF


I am sorry that I can not do it, as it is not as easy as it seems to make some stripes to get the look of a real barcode

Of course is not needed to have the numbers as is not easy to use numbers in FF (although ThreeDee made an amazing work with numbers to be used inside FF)

Hi!. I saw about barcode art.

Doing a real barcode generator should not be too complex. But there are several international standards.

Doing barcode art using a filter........
A very simple solution could be having a basic barcode generator filter. Then changing our picture to a black and white silhouette and blending it in different ways with the barcode.
But I guess the result would not be as good as doing it manually.

Something like this is probably not too difficult to do :





But these are much harder, I believe :

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They are harder because the barcode is a continuation of the picture or, depending on the picture, the barcode shape changes.

Anyway, let's see.
I can try.

Great news, and thanks very much Ramlyn, will see what you have done when it is available

Although it may be simple, for me the difficult is to mantain always the white lines separating the black lines and having random sized black lines

The UPC-A seems to be he more common an usual bar code, good

Well nobody's done a QR code generator so I guess that's your next step.

That was just a silly joke SR. I know it's 100% impractical.

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In my own personal opinion, I do not think that QR codes are any nice or beautiful, too much pixelated, ugly to make art with them for my taste, although of course this is my point of view as when you put "QR code art" in google images there are many examples of artworks created with these QR codes

I'm going to drop off something interesting about this statement that made me think about my background.

You can't formulate an opinion about aesthetics on something that was made out of practicality and pure reasoning. There's absolutely no way you can attribute "it looks ugly" to practical data storage on a flat surface. It's made the way it is and it works. That's all that matters with the QR Code. There's no beauty, no gorgeous or ugly. It's purely purposeful and utility.

When you add colors to QRCode, or start doing playful things, THEN we can argue that it's beautiful or ugly. But in the end, no matter how we deal with it, a QRcode is made for a reason and if it serves it's purpose then it's successful as a utility.

I come from a background of philosophers and designers that assume that practical design is best when most minimum. This particular school of thought argues that at the most minimum, a design can't be aesthetic nor can it be argued with the same standard attributes we give to "design".

The reason why I'm point this out to you is because a lot of people fail to think about design at it's essence. I feel people are carried away by "aesthetic design" with our opinions about stuff in the world that we lose out on what's actually important about design, the arts, and why we even practice the arts. And I sometimes feel "having an opinion" ... is what holds you back from really seeing good design.

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Or..... Maybe if I select that "always & only" the thick lines have branches......

I think it is safe to say that FF is probably barely up to this, it would have to be a map script, check out this link for format info and keep clicking to the right:
QR Format Info
Just a tad complex, wouldn't you say I can see creating fake ones, it is (argh) cubist art.

Skybase thanks for your comment is curious and good, I understand what you say, but is what Ramlyn have said

I understand perfectly that when they designed the QR CODE it was never designed to be pretty, decorative, beautiful or nice to see, just made in the best way for the purpose it will have independently of the looks for coding, the same as the bar code.

Maybe there could be a confusion, in that I said that they may be UGLY to make ART with them, not that they are bad because of how they look in itself.

Also is that I never liked pixelated things, and I now with the trending of minecraft and big blocky graphics, it reminds me like QR code belongs to the mindcraft world

QR CODES FOR ART PURPOSES

Maybe if you enlarge them really very much ( 1 meter by 1 meter) and give it colorful background to the inside of it, it make start to look better as shown on some of the google images qr codes art search.

Maybe it could be good a QR code for mixing two different images, 1 inside of the qr and the second outside of it, as background, so it would be used as a mak

Also it can be used in 3D as a cube as shown here

QR code cube 3D model