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This is really neat! I wonder how they chose to represent the inner structure of these binaries visually - there seem to be some similarities between the .exes vs the other types.

Reminds me of pointing the viewport address to a block of code on the Amiga 500, and watching it run.



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


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.




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