# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint/blob/39b82247d5690dcb75ab5294997b9136f769f877/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/reeng-ibispaint-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/reeng-ibispaint-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/reeng-ibispaint-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint/blob/39b82247d5690dcb75ab5294997b9136f769f877/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint/blob/39b82247d5690dcb75ab5294997b9136f769f877/IPBZ/main.md>
3. <https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint/blob/39b82247d5690dcb75ab5294997b9136f769f877/IPCF/main.md>
4. <https://github.com/HatLink/reeng-ibispaint/blob/39b82247d5690dcb75ab5294997b9136f769f877/IPV/Chunks/0x03000600_ManageLayer.md>

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