Designer DNA

I’ve been reading about DNA Barcoding. The ordering of DNA nucleotides within certain genes provides a unique pattern - enough to create the equivalent of a UPC for living organisms. The science of it is stimulating reading and the color-coded visualizations of DNA as barcode are fascinating to see.

This gave me an idea. I coded a little program to take the first 100 design images published in our portfolio and automatically generate a unique barcode pattern - our own designer DNA barcode.

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Scott Boms | Mar 24, 2005

Very cool. I’d be interested to see how you went about creating the barcode - sounds like it might make for an interesting little tutorial.

Don’t just tease us with a picture…

james | Mar 26, 2005

As the long march picks up pace towards open source Identity solutions, we will also probably want to have our own visual or avatar for our own unique identities. Perhaps you could try to combine this programmatically to identity or to blogs.
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RBIRD | Apr 7, 2005

Okay, Scott. I’m going to convert my script into a PhotoShop Action that can be enjoyed by all. What I envision is an Action that will take all images dumped into any folder and automatically generate the barcode you see above. That’s essentially what I had done, but “the hard way.” I can’t say for sure when I will get to this, though. So, stay tuned. (Does this count as yet another tease?)

Richard Bird | Jun 25, 2007

It’s a conversation piece. “Hey, what is this?” Tell me more. And, now, you have (at least) 100 more stories to tell.

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