What is the difference between .ppm and .sixel?
- Extension
- .ppm
- .sixel
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Jef Poskanzer
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- 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.
- 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-portable-pixmap
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia