Pixelbomber

A program to nuke pixelflut servers

This client is largely inspired by pixelpwnr, although I made heavy modifications to decrease the bottlenecks.

Installation

Either using cargo:

cargo install pixelbomber

or by cloning and then building:

git clone https://github.com/fabi321/pixelbomber.git
cd pixelbomber
cargo build --release

Features

Concurrent writing pipes
Animated images with consecutive images
Control over render sizes and offsett
Faster than pixelpwnr (in my case by more than a Factor of 8)
Linux, Windows and MacOS
Same cli as pixelpwnr
Support for both gray pixel command as well as offset command, enable with --offset and --gray
Support for automated feature and size detection, on by default
Support for binary pixel commands in the PBxyrgba format (x and y are u16 le encoded)
Support for input streams
Fast image to pixel commands encoder

Get images from stream

By using - as sole image file path, you can pipe in images from stdin. Pixelbomber expects bitmap files as input. You can specify, how many images can be processed in parallel with the --workers flag.

Example using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -re -i <video_file> -f image2pipe -c:v bmp - | cargo run --release -- <host> -

Some ffmpeg tips:

use -re if the input is a video file. This forces ffmpeg to play it at most at realtime
use -stream_loop -1 before -i to repeat a video indefinitely

Tradeoff