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University of Edinburgh launches Spellbinder – “Invisible Graffiti” only viewable through mobile phones

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Sunday, August 12th, 2007 at 8:56 PM

Invisible Graffiti at University of Edinburgh

Ahh, graffiti, the universal art of street artists and ruffians alike (depending on how you look at it). The ubiquitous “street art” has taken a high-tech twist at the University of Edinburgh. The BBC reports that researchers at the Division of Informatics have launched their “invisible art” project, dubbed Spellbinder.

As the title suggests, the graffiti is invisible to the naked eye. When a digital image of a building is sent via MMS to a special server, “powerful image-matching algorithms” determine which building it is and send back an image with a bunch of added digital content – the “graffiti.”

If you happen to pass through Edinburgh, head on over to the university. Your run-of-the-mill cameraphone with MMS turns your run-of-the-mill walk on campus into an exciting, high-tech hunt for geek graffiti – we’re calling it “geekriti.” What we wouldn’t give to be back in school and have “geekriti” plastered all over our local college campus. It’d probably help us actually make it to more lectures this time around.

[Via: MocoNews]

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  • tommy

    :shock: good stuff ! :)

  • harim

    I did this to my house its pretty cool :cool:

  • BILL

    ITS SHIT

  • BILL

    LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • BILL

    :mrgreen: ONLY JK LOOKS KINDA GOOD :mrgreen:

  • l33o

    please help im stuck in the year 2008 can you hear me sohis?

  • beca

    this is 2008 nigga :grin:

  • cha92

    thats not the university of Edinburgh!!
    its the UN building

  • jen

    Wish l could do something like that :!: :arrow: :sad:

  • babyphat inc.

    DANMMMMMM DiSz SzHYt iSz WACk JSzT FUKiN WIt yAH

  • doodle

    this shit is whak

  • kimberly

    i like totally love it like omg XooxxXooOx

  • korey

    fake!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink:

  • jesus

    :twisted: TAG the world homie :twisted:

  • bomer

    fake as fuk photoshop but if it was real props fasho

  • Stefany

    Wow thats kool but the dragons got to go make it lk WESTSIDE or some thing Crip or something lol :roll:

  • Nicholas McGee

    I dare somebody to send this picture to the officials of the United kingdom and the president of the United states.

  • jaystet

    it’s amazing :cool:

  • brandon

    man i wish i knew haw to bome like that

  • Tholo

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!if you guiz tink dat graff is tyt id suggest you come to South Africa

  • Tholo

    Oh and yoh you got me wif da puppykibble thang ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

  • yoh

    i new some one would fall for it :lol:

  • yoh

    wait i ment the website hentai

  • luiz

    :twisted: amor so de mão, o resto e puru odio

  • dunny

    go on this mate you will luv it watch it all. :mrgreen: :twisted: :shock: :smile: :???: :evil: :grin: :oops: :razz: :roll: :wink: :cry: :eek: :lol: :mad: :sad: :!: :?:

  • I.C.Weener

    well…i like it alot…its seems pretty interesting…if it really is true…or if its just photoshopped like that other guy said…but its a great job…and the U.N. building?…wow…really cool…guess you gotta see IT to believe IT…

  • daniezzzzzle

    :oops: :roll: :wink: :sad: DaMmMmMm DaTs KoOl bUt fAkE SoRrY hAvE tO sAy :oops: :razz: :roll: :wink: :sad:

  • Graffiti

    Niceness!

  • jaziah jones

    fuckin awsome. Lovin it man add me man pls. jza1995@hotmail.com

  • ohhhh yeah

    on msn man

  • dfrtt

    this sucks :evil:

  • rebir

    80% of the talent behind graffiti is having the balls to show it to THE WORLD, and hell, to even get it on the walls in the first place. I don’t care if you digitally add a photo of your mom to the White House—they got no talent, only too much spare time.

    To those students who call this shit graffiti:
    Grow a pair of balls, get laid, and get out there.

    None of these guys have the balls to even tag a bus stop, this isn’t graffiti, it’s just Photoshop.

    - Winnipeg

  • DEMON

    DATS TYT BT SOUTH AFRICA IS DA RULER OF GRAFFITI

  • MaD BoY

    This is cool I make graffiti to that is very cool

  • cassie

    Yoh and James are perverts don’t click on the websites

  • yoh

    i only did it as a joke
    and did you click it cassie?

    if you did srry i only ment to do it as a joke.

  • grafitti_mania

    WOW :O COOL :P

  • UR MOM

    LOl If You Want Something :) GO TO GRAFFITI PALACE

  • vale

    hey well that is pretty tight but u should just show your real artwork. not photoshopped pics Latz dats kool by da way

  • vale_UB

    And by da way UNIQUE SUICIDEL BOMERS rule da world of GRAFFITI LIKE IT OR NOT ***USB***

  • bob

    it cooolllllll dog ay yo up for a 3 sum

  • mr.prez

    yo dog that so dope its sick!!!!!

  • Jennyjacky

    I like it think that it is cool never seen anything like it!!!

  • Raidium

    I would say it was cool if it were real but that is obviously a photoshop job. There’s no way thats real because noone would be able to graffiti the whol building without getting caught and secondly, if you can only see it through your mobile phone then how in the world were they able to create the job without f**king up? Not possible but nice try anyway.

  • ghetto

    pretty badass

  • kyle

    that is grezzy graffti how long did it take you???

  • adam josling

    face :)

  • PC

    good tag and graffit

  • delane

    thts well gd fan u no wat am sayin blud

  • black-boy-getn-it-down

    damm dat shit is sweet boi dnt u wish it was 4 real nw

  • issac

    very nice…..how long did it take to complete the entire work?