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by deoxxa 1540 days ago
Erasure coding (particularly fountain codes) are what you'd want to use.
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You’d have to be clever about the physical distance between overlapping codes. You’d hate to see a 3cm artifact (cut, stain, spill, etc) take out a whole unit/block. (Assuming you’d print multiple blocks on a page.)