Find patterns to set width (and stride ?)

[flip111]

Could the program do a simple (but possible computational expensive) computation to look for repeating patterns?

With as input parameters:

• offset (byte 0 to filesize)
• stride (from 1 to maybe half the filesize, or 25%)
• pattern length (span of bytes)

Result of search could be:
Found pattern with length of 3 bytes, repeated 100 times with stride 20

Then width of can set equal to stride and the same kind color of pixels should show up as a vertical line.

In case of many patterns found they can be sorted by something like: pattern length * length

[sharkdp]

Interesting idea. I think this should be prototyped in an external script/experiment first.