- Extension
- .mat
- .xbm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Data
- Raster Image
- Developer
- The MathWorks
- The X Consortium
- 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.
- Bitmap image used by the X Window System (X11), a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage networked client-server computers; stores a monochrome image that is written as plain text in the C programming language.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/x-xbitmap
