BLOG 09/2003

27 SEPTEMBER
Currently in the cooking pot, but all subject to last-minute swingeing changes.







21 SEPTEMBER
The following two bitmap images are 8-bit greyscale visualizations of
the same contiguous part of the executable binary of the Trojan.Lucifer virus.
The second bitmap has exactly twice the width and half the height of 
the first bitmap.

We see that both images have perfectly straight vertical bands.
From this we can deduce that the data is behaving like a wave with
a dominant fundamental wavelength; it regularly changes from white
pixels to black pixels and back again.

It's interesting to know what the fundamental wavelength is. In both
bitmaps we see the same vertical banding phenomenon. But look closely
at the first bitmap and you see that it looks interlaced - every second
row is mostly black.


TROJAN.LUCIFER[252x192]

Sure enough, by doubling the width in the second bitmap to 504 pixels, the vertical
bands are non-interlaced. So we can now say the fundamental wavelength
equals 504 / 9, because there are 9 vertical bands, which equals 56 pixels.


TROJAN.LUCIFER[504x96]

And here's confirmation in the (un-normalised) autocorrelation function 
for the data. The peaks at lags which are integer multiples of 56 stand
out very clearly.


TROJAN.LUCIFER[autocorrelation]

14 SEPTEMBER
Update: I couldn't let you exist for another week without new eye-warez.
This image is a visualization of the 3818 raw data bytes of the CodeRed2 virus
executable. It's the start of a new family of glitches. Welcome. You'll never leave.


FAEL-SAEF

RT2 (orange blocks) contains some radiotelescope shots, as promised.
Fucking scary. They actually make futuristic bleepy noises too.

Jesus Hellfire! I really ought to give you a new sample of glitch art, but instead
I'm going to take perverse pleasure in accepting that this site is going
through a bit of a lean period vis-a-vis glitches, and not
exhibit one this week either. I can't be fully-modulated on all frequencies all the time.
If you're a new visitor here, you have over TWO YEARS' worth of glitches in the
green blocks to keep you going. And if you're a regularly-modulated visitor,
I know you'll stick with me because of our blood-allegiance to satanic pixels.

The next New Bleep event is Halloween night, and I'll be
doing all-new glitch-art visuals for that. And we all know and believe that NEW = BETTER,
right kids? 

Feel the peer-pressure. Buy a BEFLIX t-shirt, whydontcha? (Because the photos are crap
and they're too expensive, silver paint notwithstanding?) BX05

07 SEPTEMBER
I know this will fascinate you intensely. I've just had a week's
hols in Cornwall (South-West lump of Great Britain). More importantly,
I've risked arrest to take some photos of the secretive radio telescope
Earth Station there. Nope, it's not Goonhilly; this place isn't even marked
on maps. Will upload the pics next week.

I have a kickstart rom now, thanks, Ed and Ed.