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Comment by jcalvinowens

1 day ago

If you just want to see patterns, and don't actually need to see the values, you can go a step further and simply visualize the data as a bitmap, e.g.

    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=$[256*256] count=1 | display -size 256x256 -depth 8 GRAY:-

You can do the same thing with audio, which makes different sorts of patterns obvious, e.g.

    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=$[256*256] count=1 | aplay -c 1

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EvanAnderson  19 hours ago

I made little CLI tool back in the MS-DOS days to dump binaries into VGA mode 0x13. It allowed me to vary the width of "line" wrapping. It was a killer tool for seeing data in binaries.