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]