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by mk_stjames 925 days ago
Those are trigrams of all 3-byte sequences of binary executables arranged in a cube. Here are some more examples of that type of viz:

https://codisec.com/binary-data-visualization/

And here is a talk about binary visualization by the legend Christopher Domas, which is where I first saw it used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk

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Thanks! My first questions there were about the choices of the cube dimensions (where the stream folds, etc, what's best to make cyclic patterns stand out, how come we see diagonal artifacts as on a heatmap) - the video seems like it covers that and so much more.