Bar Code / QR Code Design

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Characteristics: Bar Code

• Varying line thicknesses

• Numbers

Characteristics: QR Code

• Varying line Direction

• Similar Line widths

• Maze-like quality

What does QR stand for?

QR Bar Code- QUICK RESPONSE CODEFast readability and large storage capacity compared to the standard UPC barcode.

Unlike the older one-dimensional barcode, the QR code is detected as a 2-dimensional digital image by a semiconductor image sensor and then is digitally analyzed by a programmed processor.

The OriginS• UPC bar code began in 1948.

Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to undertake research to develop a system to automatically read product information during checkout.

• QR Code- Japan 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process- originally designed to allow components to be scanned at high speed.

The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a "bull's eye" symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles.

Shtrikh kod (“Bar code” in Russian)

• What is it? Barcode in the form of architecture.

• Designers: Vitruvius and sons

• Location: St. Petersburg, Russia

• Function: commercial space, retail, shopping center

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