- Extension
- .mat
- .pam
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Raster Image
- Developer
- The MathWorks
- Bryan Henderson
- Description
- A MAT-file holds the variables saved from a MATLAB session: numeric arrays such as matrices and images, text, cell arrays and structs. Files saved with -v7.3 are HDF5 files behind a MATLAB header. Unity and Unreal material files use the .mat extension too, but they are a different format.
- The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]
