Examples • Screencast • How it works • Installation

*binocle* is a graphical tool to visualize binary data. It colorizes bytes according to different rules and renders them as pixels in a rectangular grid. This allows users to identify interesting parts in large files and to reveal image-like regions. ## Examples | ELF binary | MS Teams memdump | Doom assets | `perf record` samples | |---|---|---|---| | | | | | ## Preview [**Watch a short screencast here**](https://shark.fish/binocle.mp4) ## How it works The program allows you to control various parameters like the *offset* into the file, the *stride*, the *width* of the rectangular grid as well as the way in which (groups of) bytes are colorized.

## Installation ### On Ubuntu Download the appropriate `.deb` package from the [Release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/binocle/releases) and install it via `dpkg`: ``` wget https://github.com/sharkdp/binocle/releases/download/v0.3.1/binocle_0.3.1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i binocle_0.3.1_amd64.deb ``` ### On Arch Linux binocle can be installed from the [extra repository](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/binocle/) using [pacman](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman): ``` pacman -S binocle ``` ### From binaries (Linux, macOS, Windows) Download the corresponding archive from the [Release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/binocle/releases). ### With cargo (Linux, macOS, Windows) binocle can be installed via [cargo](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/): ``` cargo install binocle ``` ## License binocle is dual-licensed under the terms of the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0. See the [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) and [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) files for details. ## Related work - [A Visual Study of Primitive Binary Fragment Types](http://www.rumint.org/gregconti/publications/taxonomy-bh.pdf) - [binvis.io](http://binvis.io/) - [cantor.dust](https://sites.google.com/site/xxcantorxdustxx/) ([talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk)) - [veles.io](https://veles.io) ([GitHub [archived]](https://github.com/codilime/veles))