What is the difference between .ras and .j2k?
- Extension
- .ras
- .j2k
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- 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.
- Compressed bitmap image that uses wavelet compression instead of the DCT compression used by standard .JPEG images; supports 16-bit color, alpha transparency, and lossless compression.
- MIME Type
- image/x-cmu-raster
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.j2k
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .j2k on Wikipedia