What is the difference between .sixel and .pbm?
- Extension
- .sixel
- .pbm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- 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.
- 1-bit black and white image; formatted in text format; basic raster image format in which each pixel is represented by a byte that contains a 1 or 0; 1 represents black and 0 represents white pixels.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.dwg
- image/x-portable-bitmap
- Sample
- sample.pbm
- Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia
- .pbm on Wikipedia