What is the difference between .sixel and .bpg?
- Extension
- .sixel
- .bpg
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Fabrice Bellard
- Description
- 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.
- Better Portable Graphics (BPG) image format created to replace the JPEG format; provides the same quality as JPEG images but in a smaller file size; supports lossless compression; natively supports 8 to 14 bits per channel.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.dwg
- image/x-bpg
- Sample
- sample.bpg
- Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia
- .bpg on Wikipedia