What is the difference between .xbm and .sixel?
- Extension
- .xbm
- .sixel
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- The X Consortium
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- Bitmap image used by the X Window System (X11), a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage networked client-server computers; stores a monochrome image that is written as plain text in the C programming language.
- 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-xbitmap
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.xbm
- Wikipedia
- .xbm on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia