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Comment by fussylogic

3 days ago

Cool tool from the above blog post. Worth a look.

https://binvis.io/

Ps: I had the exact same thought!

Also: can programs be encoded into lossy image formats? Would be cool to see what image compression does to program functionality

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Retr0id  3 days ago

I use binvis quite a lot for getting a quick overview of an unknown file format, using the entropy mode in particular.

However, I almost always switch it into the linear view. Hilbert curves are cool but I've never really found any benefit, and it makes it harder to intuit things like how far a particular feature is into the file, or whether two features are actually nearby (while near things in linear-space are typically near in hilbert-space, there are discontinuities).