What is the difference between .rgb and .vips?
- Name
- RGB Bitmap
- VIPS Image
- Extension
- .rgb
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- SGI
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Description
- Color bitmap image format created by Silicon Graphics (SGI); generic format used for saving RGB color images on SGI workstations; recognized by various image viewing programs.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-rgb
- image/vnd.vips
- Sample
- sample.rgb
- Wikipedia
- .rgb on Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia