We’ve heard a number of stories over the last few years about tagging animals with RFID chips, but we’ve never been particularly fascinated about the theory. Well, now a team of researchers has give you a miles less invasive way of tracking individual animals — specifically zebras — by essentially using their stripes as barcodes. StripeSpotter, because it’s known, takes an isolated part of a photo of a zebra and slices it right into a series of horizontal bands. Each pixel inside the selection is then fully converted into black or white, and the bands are in turn encoded into StripeStrings, which eventually make up a StripeCode that resembles a barcode. All this knowledge is stored in a database that enables researchers to directly identify particular animals without ever having to get too close. StripeCode could be a zebra-centric application for now, but its developers see it creating a mark around the food chain with the inclusion of alternative distinctly patterned beasts, like tigers and giraffes. Animal tracking hobbyists can get their very own free copy of the applying by clicking at the source link below.
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