What is the difference between .jp2 and .sgi?
- Extension
- .jp2
- .sgi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Silicon Graphics
- Description
- A JP2 file is a compressed bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 Core Coding. It incorporates a wavelet compression algorithm instead of Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) compression, which is used by standard JPEG images. JP2 files can be stored using lossy and lossless compression.
- Image saved in the native graphics format used by Silicon Graphics workstations; can store 8 to 32 bits per pixel; also supports Run-length encoding (RLE) compression for reducing the image file size.
- MIME Type
- image/jp2
- image/sgi
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- sample.sgi
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia
- .sgi on Wikipedia