Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)

Oh, wow! This tool is something else. I highly recommend uploading a file. The interface is just spectacular.

Also, the brush lets you calculate and apply different views. Things like entropy, magnitude. It's very visually attractive.

One feature request I have is: please allow us to set the bit / word width of each unit. Currently it's fixed at 1 octet, and it would be useful to be able to change that.

Otherwise, this is awesome! :)

Check out: https://veles.io - it does binary visualization also in 3d

http://icewater.io/ has about 250m malware samples clustered using using something similar. My talk about it from Shmoocon in 2016 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXzzbr4lqw

Visualizing binary data is definitely an interest of mine and I plan to eventually write some tools for this. It's really cool to see that my brainstormed list of features differs so much from some of the other available tools out there. Just part of that cycle of inspiration.

Space-filling curves weren't even on my radar and I'm still not sure that I'd want to implement them. I do like the result, though and may take that into consideration.

If you need an introduction to the subject, 3Blue1Brown is a really good YouTube channel about mathematical visualizations, and they did an episode about Hilbert curves and why they're so useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU

Nice idea. Would be cool to compare this with the zipped binary to see the change in entropy (altough the colors need to be changed)