- Extension
- .mat
- .vst
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Raster Image
- Developer
- The MathWorks
- Truevision
- 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.
- Raster image based on the Targa Truevision format; can store data up to 32 bits per pixel, with 24 bits for the RGB information and 8 bits for the alpha channel; may also incorporate lossless RLE compression to reduce the file size.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/x-targa
