What is the difference between .ppm and .sgi?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .sgi
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- Silicon Graphics
- Description
- A PPM file is a 24-bit color image formatted using a text format. It stores each pixel with a number from 0 to 65536, which specifies the color of the pixel. PPM files also store the image height and width, whitespace data, and the maximum color value.
- 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-pixmap
- image/sgi
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- sample.sgi
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .sgi on Wikipedia