I don't recall why I ever made this but I figured I'd post it here for giggles. It reads STDIN or the files in @ARGV and outputs some nicely formatted trinary.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use constant SCREEN_WIDTH => 80;
$" = " ";
$\ = "\n";

($columns) = (SCREEN_WIDTH / 6) =~ m((\d+));
$columns --;

while (<>) {
    for (map trit($_), unpack 'C*', $_) {
        $_ .= " " while length() < 5;
        if (@line == $columns) {
            print "@line $_";
            @line = ();
        }
        else {
            push @line, $_;
        }
    }
}
print "@line" if @line;

sub trit {
    my $in = shift;
    my $trit = '';
    for (4,3,2,1,0) {
        my $b = 3 ** $_;
        my $d = substr $in / $b, 0, 1;
        $trit .= $d;
        $in -= $d * $b;
    }
    return $trit;
}

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