What is the difference between .pcd and .sixel?
- Extension
- .pcd
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Kodak
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- This format was developed by Kodak in order to store images on optical or other media. It is used as a format for archiving scanned documents on Kodak devices. It encodes images in 24-bit color and supports resolutions of up to 6144x4096 pixels.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-photo-cd
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.pcd
- Wikipedia
- .pcd on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia