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Many attempts have been made to bring h4X0r culture to the mainstream. But code, though elegant, is difficult to discern at a glance and would be completely passed over by all levels of geek below some of the more accomplished demi-nerds. Consequently, Hollywood’s worms and virii are 3D animated structures that are much more likely to awe the average movie goer at the expense of the technically savvy.

Hackers portrays the worm used to steal millions of dollars from an oil company (launched internally I might add) as a beautiful flowing structure that resembles a flowing chain of sea urchins. As it turns out, whether they knew it or not, they were on to something.

Alex Dragulescu has produced amazing, intriguing 3D representations of malware and spam text. It’s like a fractal based instead on code iterations instead of complex equations. It’s mindbottling. From his own explanation:

For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism.