Tutorials

Artcode Basics

Artcodes are made up of a boundary, regions and blobs. They have a simple hierarchical structure: blobs are inside the regions, regions are inside the boundary. You can draw as much as you like outside of the boundary as long as it doesn't touch the boundary ...
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How to draw an Artcode

Learn how to draw an Artcode with step-by-step instructions ...
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How to use Artcodes (including experiences)

This guide show you how to use the Artcodes with the iPhone and Android apps. Getting Started ▶︎ If you haven't already download and open the Artcodes app.The first time you open the Artcodes app you will see a brief tutorial screen (not shown) after you'll see the "Recommended" screen. This lists recently used, nearby and popular experiences. Select the "Artcodes" experience from the list. ▶︎This will show you the ...
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Add Artcodes to your app!

The Artcodes app on the AppStore and Google Play allows you to scan Artcodes and create end-to-end augmented reality experiences. If you need more features or customisation you can add Artcodes to your app by using a library/dependancy or by downloading the code. Licence The Horizon Artcodes applications and libraries are publicly distributed under version 3 of the Affero General Public License. If you obtained this code under that license, ...
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Visual Checksum

The visual checksum is a technique to prevent the wrong code being read due to reflections or dirt. The visual checksum is a technique to prevent the wrong code being read due to reflections or dirt. It was introduced in the paper "Enabling Hand-Crafted Visual Markers at Scale" to be presented at the ACM conference Designing Interactive Systems 2017. Using the visual checksum is simple: We include a new region ...
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