What is the difference between .jp2 and .sun?
- Extension
- .jp2
- .sun
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Sun Microsystems
- 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.
- Bitmap image generated by a Sun Microsystems workstation; native graphic format used by the Sun Unix operating system; uses a standard image format that can be read by several graphics programs.
- MIME Type
- image/jp2
- image/x-sun-raster
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- sample.sun
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia
- .sun on Wikipedia