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Does there exist a program for Linux that can display raw binary data? Each byte in my binary files represent a pixel, so it would be very useful if something like this exists where I could say and it would display the pixels. I wonder if gnuplot, can be used for this...? |
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Okay, gnuplot can do it. |
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To see the "raw binary data", I would use the hex dump command $ hd -C a.txt 00000000 61 0a 61 61 0a 61 61 61 0a 61 61 61 61 0a 61 61 |a.aa.aaa.aaaa.aa| 00000010 61 61 61 0a 62 62 62 0a 62 62 62 62 0a 62 62 62 |aaa.bbb.bbbb.bbb| 00000020 62 62 0a 3c 62 65 67 69 6e 3e 0a 61 61 61 61 61 |bb.<begin>.aaaaa| 00000030 61 0a 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 0a 61 61 61 61 61 61 |a.aaaaaaa.aaaaaa| 00000040 61 61 0a |aa.| 00000043 I don't know of any image format that consists of unstructured bytes - is the data 8-bit RGB values? If the file contains 30000 bytes is that RGB for 100x100 pixels or RGB for 50x200 pixels or RGB for 200x50 pixels or something else? Is there a palette? You have to know something about the organisation of the data! To view it as an image I would use the NetPBM utilities or maybe ImageMagick to convert it to a form understood by an image viewer If the above can't do the job I'd investigate writing a small Perl script |
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hdto format. Then you ask to see an image. If it is an image, then it is going to be in an image format ( like bmp ) that will at the very least, have a header that identifies the format, the width, height, color depth, and maybe also have a color palette attached. – psusi Jun 8 '11 at 1:12