{"id":382,"date":"2017-01-28T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2017-02-07T22:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:55:15","slug":"mysterious-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Textures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a new page on my non-blog website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/textures\/\">https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/textures\/<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Around 2010 my backup hard drive started to fail. The filesystem became corrupted and unrecoverable. I used a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsecurity.org\/wiki\/PhotoRec\">tool called PhotoRec<\/a> that would search through the raw blocks of a hard drive, looking for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_file_signatures\">&#8220;magic numbers&#8221;<\/a> at the start of common media files like JPG files. Those files, without their filesystem information such as original filename and directory structure, were randomly named and placed into a single folder. Fortunately I could use the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exif\">EXIF data<\/a> stored in most JPG files to extract the date and time when the photo was taken, and write a little script to sort the folders by year and month.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the process of recovering my photos, I found several thousand small texture images. I have no idea where they came from, or why they were on my failing backup hard drive. That drive had contained a decade&#8217;s worth of computer backups from our computers and the computers of friends and family, so maybe there was some application that used all these textures? It&#8217;s a mystery. Anyway, I thought I&#8217;d post them here in case they might be useful for someone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See these mysterious textures here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/textures\/\">https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/textures\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a new page on my non-blog website (https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/textures\/): Around 2010 my backup hard drive started to fail. The filesystem became corrupted and unrecoverable. I used a tool called PhotoRec that would search through the raw blocks of a hard drive, looking for the &#8220;magic numbers&#8221; at the start of common media files like JPG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BznB-6a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}