Case study

Reengineering Project for ibisPaint: investigating artwork and brush formats

Reengineering Project for ibisPaint investigates the app's IPV artwork, IPCF configuration and IPBZ brush QR formats. It records IPV chunk fields, provides a hex pattern and Python parsing scripts, and notes version data and deflate-compressed brush content in IPBZ QR data.

Targets: App
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2025-09-23
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: ibisPaint files or QR data are needed for format inspection.
Limits: Some recorded fields and configuration interpretations remain tentative.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{reeng-ibispaint-case,
  title = {{Reengineering Project for ibisPaint: investigating artwork and brush formats}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint}},
  url = {https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/reeng-ibispaint-case/}}
}

Plain text

Reengineering Project for ibisPaint: investigating artwork and brush formats. https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/reeng-ibispaint-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · HatLink/reeng-ibispaint · Revision 39b8224
IPBZ/main.md GitHub · HatLink/reeng-ibispaint · Revision 39b8224
IPCF/main.md GitHub · HatLink/reeng-ibispaint · Revision 39b8224
IPV/Chunks/0x03000600_ManageLayer.md GitHub · HatLink/reeng-ibispaint · Revision 39b8224