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Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by fsiefken »

With HCCB (High Capacity Color Barcode) of which an implementation is Microsoft Tag you can get 1.5 MB with 600dpi color on a A4. If you add the best compression techniques (cmix v7) depending on the source material you could get 8 times as much english text, easily fitting the pearls or religion: Tenach, New Testament, Quran, Mahabarata, The Dhamapada, the Atthakavagga and the Parayanavagga, Rhinoceros and Lotus Sutra, The Book of the Dead and the Sri Guru Granth Sahib and explanatory texts and commentary on one single A4.

Or you could get 4 minutes of stereo music, Opus@40Kbps or half an hour of speech Opus@6Kbps - (Vinyl LP seems to be more efficient and simpler for that).

Or the best 25 classical pieces in MIDI, for example Beethoven Symphony #5 in C minor is a 322 KB midi file (compressed 60 KB). With compressed ABC or Alda notation you could even fit 10 times as much. Or you can just read the ABC and automatically 'hear' the music in your head (is there a similar notation for human movement or dance i wonder...).

Even so perhaps a better and more cost effective system is microfilm, here an example of the bible printed on a 2 inch film: http://www.amazon.com/Microform-Bible-Much-Like-First/dp/B00... - you don't need a computer, just a lensing system. It has one downside, the blind cannot use this unless you'd make an OCR to TTS or braille display converter on top of it.

Or as described in the book Mindhacker you could use Dutton Speedwords/Briefscript word abbreviations preferrable tailored to Esperanto to double the text on the microfilm or on your handwritten A4. https://github.com/leonardoce/bumot

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by CuttlefishXXX »

mholt wrote: post #4

Has anyone actually used this? I'm intrigued by the idea and wonder if this is a viable backup option; and if so, are there more modern, maintained, and cross-platform open source solutions that do this?

tar and split combined with a QR encoder would solve the problem just fine.

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by dmos62 »

fsiefken wrote: post #31

With HCCB (High Capacity Color Barcode) of which an implementation is Microsoft Tag you can get 1.5 MB with 600dpi color on a A4. If you add the best compression techniques (cmix v7) depending on the source material you could get 8 times as much english text, easily fitting the pearls or religion: Tenach, New Testament, Quran, Mahabarata, The Dhamapada, the Atthakavagga and the Parayanavagga, Rhinoceros and Lotus Sut…

I commend your enumeration of religious and mystic texts.

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by kalleboo »

CuttlefishXXX wrote: post #32
mholt wrote: post #4

Has anyone actually used this? I'm intrigued by the idea and wonder if this is a viable backup option; and if so, are there more modern, maintained, and cross-platform open source solutions that do this?

tar and split combined with a QR encoder would solve the problem just fine.

I'm pretty sure systemd has this feature in there somewhere

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by aw3c2 »

robotkilla wrote: post #17
curiousjorge wrote: post #5

this has some pretty powerful applications for example for politics or mass dissemination of paper based digital files for the public to quickly consume. Imagine, if students could start posting free textbook pdf files just by handing out a piece of paper which you could scan, or maybe with a phone one day, and instantly receive the file. Why not QR code? QR code needs connectivity while this solution would just requ…

Maybe I'm just slow tonight but I don't see the usefulness in the applications you're describing. >for politics or mass dissemination of paper based digital files for the public to quickly consume > Imagine, if students could start posting free textbook pdf files just by handing out a piece of paper which you could scan, or maybe with a phone one day, and instantly receive the file. With both of those, how is this mo…

Standing outside with a stack of paper, being able to give them to passers-by, staying anonymous and free of network surveillance.

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by akx »

fsiefken wrote: post #31

With HCCB (High Capacity Color Barcode) of which an implementation is Microsoft Tag you can get 1.5 MB with 600dpi color on a A4. If you add the best compression techniques (cmix v7) depending on the source material you could get 8 times as much english text, easily fitting the pearls or religion: Tenach, New Testament, Quran, Mahabarata, The Dhamapada, the Atthakavagga and the Parayanavagga, Rhinoceros and Lotus Sut…

Regarding notation for human movement, there's Siteswap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap) for juggling :)

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by harel »

ant6n wrote: post #6

So I'd like this on medium that's a bit more permanent than paper, but with similar information density per kg, and similar re-creatability without having any of the original tools available. I'd like to store data for say 100 thousand years.

Clay tablets? They survived from Sumer, Assyria and Babylon thousands of years ago.

Re: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

sowbug wrote: post #18

The name of the project is unfortunate, as it makes it very difficult to search the web for related projects such as Linux or OS X ports.

Many projects fall in this trap. I use Awesome as my window manager, and the Awesome theming library is called Beautiful. Now try googling "awesome beautiful wallpaper"...
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