3D imitation : The most popular 3D effect. A single picture is portrayed with a high degree of depth.
Flip : A picture is exchanged by another by tilting the card.
Morphing : An object can be converted into another. The animation effect appears especially smooth, if shape and colours of the object are similar.
3D depth : From all possible angels and distances, pictures of an object in its natural surrounding are taken and printed onto the card. Thus, the object seems to stick out of the card.
Simulation by computers : For this lenticular effect no photographs are needed. Via vector graphic or 3D program you can use individual designing possibilities.
Motion : One picture is exchanged by another while the conversion is conducted smoothly, thus an animation effect is created.
Flash : Pictures are stringed together and are shown after each other. The picture is changing constantly, while the card is tilted.
Combination : the different effects can also be combined with each other.
Maybe not the best image, but an SVG of the sort of thing I had in mind… A hand with chip and another hand with an NFC card in some stylized broadcast waves.
That looks really good actually. I might go for that design, but in portrait format probably.
Something like that on my readers would look really futuristic. I love the idea, and I like it even more since I found out after some googling that you can actually print those yourself. But I have a feeling that particular rabbit hole might run too deep for what the purpose is worth But I’m really tempted to play with those lenticular sheets now.
NFC for most people I meet is “that setting in my phone that I disable to save battery” And if they do know it (like if they use it to pay with their cellphones), they only know it in the context of a cellphone. Presented with a tabletop reader that has NFC written on it, I’m not sure they would immediately associate it with the “real” NFC they know, if that makes sense. The human brain is funny that way.
Feel free to modify it as much as you wish. All of the components were readily available (the waves are six “moons”, the hand was mirrored for one side, and the card and chip are just basic shapes.). It didn’t take too long to put together.
One guy called me and said “Those readers you set up, can you give me a password to write to them?” A bit confused, I asked what password. He said “Well, I got curious, so I downloaded this thing called NFC Tools and tried to write my password to the reader. It beeped but the computer said Login Failed. So I need another password I suppose.”
What the fuck was he on about about… No idea.
So I popped by and here’s what happened: in fact, when he approached his cellphone, NFC card emulation was on, so the reader took it for a passive NFC card and rejected the UID for login. Normal. But the guy was also trying to write an NDEF with his password at the same time, hoping to feed it to the normal login through NFC. I can see how that can be confusing if you don’t know how NFC works. Amusing that he tried and actually got somewhere though…
Anyway, long story short, I registered his phone’s emulated UID into the computers he wanted to use, and lo, now he too can login without a password. He’s all happy about it and telling his workmates! Hopefully he’ll soon get into his head that he could do without the cellphone too