What is the difference between .vicar and .g4?
- Name
- VICAR Image
- Group 4 FAX
- Extension
- .vicar
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- Raster image format developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; stores an image that has been taken on a mission by NASA's spacecraft; also contains information that describes the structure and type of data along with a history of processing that has been done to the image.
- 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/x-vicar
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia