Unswizzling images

[finale00]

Any techniques to unswizzling images?
Approaches?

Any libraries that would make it easier? Preferably in python cause I can quickly throw stuff at it and look at the results.

I imagine it boils down to pixel manipulation (for..bitmap images anyways), like just shifting these pixels here, maybe rotating these pixels here and there...adjusting the rgb's...

Looks like a huge puzzle game to me, but I don't have the proper tools to try to solve it effectively.
Like randomly turning a 10x10 rubik's cube hoping to solve it.

[MrAdults]

One of the most common forms of "swizzling" (twiddling!) you'll find comes from storing pixels or blocks in Morton coordinates. Converting x/y coordinates to Morton is easy: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.games. ... thms/15463

Beyond that, it varies between systems/architectures and there isn't another particularly universal standard for the ways in which people like to fuck around with their data to make it easier/faster for them to access under any given condition.

[finale00]

Twiddling?

Anyways it looks like python provides a picture module for manipulating pixels. I guess I could play around with that and see where I get.

[Vash]

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php? ... 504bd0dd93

here's an example for the standard psp

[MrAdults]

Noesis already has rapi.imageUntwiddlePSP, rapi.imageUntwiddlePS2, rapi.imageUntile360Raw, and rapi.imageUntile360DXT. So you don't have to worry about those systems. If you ever come across a new platform standard that it doesn't support, just let me know, I'm always happy to add system-wide stuff like that because that's what helps the most in making life easier.