What is the difference between .gv and .sixel?
- Extension
- .gv
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- AT&T Research
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- GV uses the Graphviz Graph Visualization Software to represent graphs in simple text language (DOT language) that can be understood by both humans and computers.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- text/vnd.graphviz
- image/vnd.dwg
- Wikipedia
- .gv on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia