What is the difference between .pam and .ras?
- Extension
- .pam
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Bryan Henderson
- Sun
- Description
- 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.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Sample
- sample.pam
- Wikipedia
- .pam on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia