- Extension
- .sixel
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Fax
- Developer
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- 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.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.dwg
- image/g4fax
