What is the difference between .sgi and .sixel?
- Extension
- .sgi
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Silicon Graphics
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- 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.
- 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/sgi
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.sgi
- Wikipedia
- .sgi on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia