What is the difference between .vips and .sixel?
- Extension
- .vips
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- 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.
- 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/vnd.vips
- image/vnd.dwg
- Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia