- Extension
- .mat
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Raster Image
- Developer
- The MathWorks
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/vnd.vips
