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Making Pictures with Data

24 pointsby eaguyhnabout 6 years ago

3 comments

tincholioabout 6 years ago
You can do much better than ImageMagick, if you want to visualize data like that. Veles (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codisec.com&#x2F;binary-visualization-explained&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codisec.com&#x2F;binary-visualization-explained&#x2F;</a>) (previous HN discussion: (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15164166)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15164166)</a>) is a nice example of this.<p>R and ggplot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martin.varela.fi&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;simple-binary-data-visualization&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martin.varela.fi&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;simple-binary-data-visua...</a>) can get you some nice visualization with just a few lines of code, too (though not as nice as the Veles tool).
campgroundabout 6 years ago
Micah Elizabeth Scott (scanlime) talks about using a similar trick as a first step into reverse engineering firmware: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;UTUYl-2g-r4?t=328" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;UTUYl-2g-r4?t=328</a>
ebg13about 6 years ago
All of computer graphics is making pictures with data. All of computer vision is making data with pictures.