What is the difference between .vicar and .ppm?
- Extension
- .vicar
- .ppm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Jef Poskanzer
- 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.
- A PPM file is a 24-bit color image formatted using a text format. It stores each pixel with a number from 0 to 65536, which specifies the color of the pixel. PPM files also store the image height and width, whitespace data, and the maximum color value.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia