What is the difference between .vicar and .sixel?
- Extension
- .vicar
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- 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.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia