What is the difference between .pam and .sgi?
- Extension
- .pam
- .sgi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Bryan Henderson
- Silicon Graphics
- 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.
- Image saved in the native graphics format used by Silicon Graphics workstations; can store 8 to 32 bits per pixel; also supports Run-length encoding (RLE) compression for reducing the image file size.
- MIME Type
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]
- image/sgi
- Sample
- sample.pam
- sample.sgi
- Wikipedia
- .pam on Wikipedia
- .sgi on Wikipedia