POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : More barcode fun : Re: More barcode fun Server Time
5 Sep 2024 05:25:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More barcode fun  
From: Invisible
Date: 30 Oct 2009 10:47:48
Message: <4aeafc94@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> Except that a human wouldn't aim the laser beam at random, see?
> 
> Humans don't aim the beam, usually it's wiggled about all over the place 
> automatically very quickly, in the hope of picking up a valid barcode 
> scan at some point.  You could do the same on a 2D image (just pick 
> points at random on the edges and scan between them).

Actually you could do better. You could search around for a rectangular 
area of white with black stuff inside it, try to figure out the 
orientation of its edges, and then skim a line across the line edge. 
It's kinda tricky though...


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