What is the difference between .vicar and .vips?
- Name
- VICAR Image
- VIPS Image
- Extension
- .vicar
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/vnd.vips
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia