QR Code

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 250.2 Hz, 77 cents flat of C4, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

Type a link in the Splash tab, pick a style or a theme, and tap the code.

A QR code stores text in a square grid of dark and light modules. Three big finder patterns tell a camera where the code is and which way up it sits, and Reed-Solomon error correction lets it lose up to 7, 15, 25 or 30 percent (levels L, M, Q and H) and still read back. Masahiro Hara's team at Denso Wave invented it in 1994.

Here every dark module is a crisp cell of splats, in one of seven styles and in a color theme or a country's flag colors, always with the contrast a camera needs. The splash reads its own picture back to check that it scans. Tap it and the modules around your finger are knocked loose and snap back; the Splash tab has eight more motions, each ending on a code that scans. Alive moves colors through the code at the speed you choose, and every frame still scans, because each module keeps nearly the same lightness. Your text never leaves your device.

Controls made by Ryan Kamp, MIT.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.