What is the difference between .sgi and .vicar?
- Extension
- .sgi
- .vicar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Scientific
- Developer
- Silicon Graphics
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 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.
- The VICAR (Video Image Communication And Retrieval) Image file format is a flexible, image-processing and data format system used primarily by the planetary science community. Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for storing and managing digital images from space missions, VICAR files are designed to support a wide range of image types, including scientific and engineering data from various spacecraft instruments. This format is characterized by its ability to handle multi-dimensional arrays of data.
- MIME Type
- image/sgi
- image/x-vicar
- Sample
- sample.sgi
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .sgi on Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia