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Converts arbitrary binary data to images with optional columnization and integer scaling for easier viewing.
Useful for visualizing the structure of binaries.
It 'slices' a binary into slices of a given size, by default 96x1 in rgb24 (representing (96 × 1) px x 3 bytes/px = 288 bytes per slice) then glues the slices vertically together to make a single (possibly very long!) image out of it.
This approach allows small binaries to be visualized, as binaries only need to have a minimum size of one slice to produce an image instead of full frames.
$ imageifier /usr/bin/trueThe resulting image is too small to be legible.
imageified /usr/bin/true
Use the -e/--scale option to do integer scaling. Let's say it should need 8x scaling.
$ imageifier /usr/bin/true -e 8imageified /usr/bin/true, larger
Perfect!
$ imageifier /usr/bin/xtermimageified /usr/bin/xterm
Not only is the image too small to be legible, it's also very tall.
Let's fix that with -c/--columns and -e.
$ imageifier /usr/bin/xterm -c 8 -e 4
imageified /usr/bin/xterm, larger and spread across columns
Much better.
You might want to imageify a huge binary (5+ MB). In this case, you may want to consider increasing the height of an individual slice to make it run faster.
$ imageifier /usr/lib64/libkritaui.so.18.0.0 -c 24 -s 96x96
imageified /usr/lib64/libkritaui.so.18.0.0
