Aisle 1No. 7 of 460
Splashery
QR Code
275,113 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Studio · Built from a recipe
QR Code
A QR code stores text in a square grid of dark and light modules.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Type a link in the Splash tab, pick a style or a theme, and tap the code.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 7 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 1, Studio
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 275,113
- Your own
- Your QR code
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- MIT, Apache-2.0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knock loose | Tap | ||
| Assemble | Button | ||
| Flip | Button | ||
| Burst and return | Button | ||
| Ripple | Button | ||
| Split-flap | Button | ||
| Fold | Button | ||
| Rain | Button | ||
| Knock loose | Button | ||
| Point cloud | Button | ||
| Alive | Switch | Off | |
| Alive speed | Slider | 0 to 100% | 50% |
| Shape | List | 2 choices | Square |
| Frame | List | 2 choices | None: filled to the edge |
| Error correction | List | 5 choices | Auto (M, which the scan lab found best) |
| Code color | Color | #14161c | |
| Background | Color | #ffffff | |
| Gradient | List | 3 choices | None |
| Gradient to | Color | #1d4f9c | |
| Eye colors | List | 2 choices | Same as the code |
| Eye color | Color | #b3261e | |
| Plate | List | 4 choices | Paper |
| Back of the tiles | Color | #e8743b | |
| Alive wave color | Color | #1d4f9c |
About it
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.
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Libraries
- MIT
- gifenc 1.0.3
- Apache-2.0
- jsQR 1.4.0 (lane LSTUDIO)
- MIT
- QR Code generator library (Project Nayuki)
