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by 8dcc 661 days ago
> There are often bright spots in these kinds of visuals that you end up seeing over and over again (e.g. clusters of ASCII).

Indeed, this is specially true in the "bigrams" mode, where each point (X,Y) is set if the bytes X and Y (00..FF) appear in that order in the input. If you look at the bigrams example in the README, you can see that there is a bright zone where the lowercase ASCII characters are, since that graph is plotting the .rodata section of the binary (using the bin-graph-section.sh script). These patterns appear with other kinds of data, not just text (e.g. x86 instructions).

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Have you checked out this demo?

https://youtu.be/C8--cXwuuFQ?list=PLUyyOw61zxiJXMihb4PjYbGHE...

The 3d pan/tilt/zoom visualizations of the trigraphs are especially nice to look at.

This immediately popped into my head! I remember it blowing my mind years ago