What is the difference between .xpm and .sixel?
- Extension
- .xpm
- .sixel
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Description
- Bitmap image used by the X Windows System, a (GUI) used to run networked client-server computers; supports monochrome, gray-scale, and color pixmap data; stores pixmaps as static character arrays 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
- Sample
- sample.xpm
- Wikipedia
- .xpm on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia