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2D Bitmap Specifications:
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BIFF - Notes
on the XITE 3D file format
BMP - MS-Windows bitmap
format
BW - SGI
Black & White Image File Format
CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile
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CGM Overview &
Description
CGM Technical
Reference (WordPerfect 5.1)
CGM
Information, Examples, and Source Code [Link]
DRAW - Acorn's
object-based vector image file format [Link]
DWG - AutoCAD
drawings file format information [Link]
FAX - The Group 3 Facsimile standard
CCITT Draft
Recommendation T.4
CCITT Group 4
pointer
DCX Format
(graphics format for fax)
EPSF - Encapsulated
Postscript Files
FIG - The FIG
V3.1 file format (used by the xfig utility)
FITS - Flexible Image
Transport System
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
GIF87a
Specification
GIF89a
Specification
GIF
Compression
GL - Another
animation format
HDF - Hierarchical Data Format
[Link]
ICC - Used
for Kodak printer
IFF - Interchange Format
Files(e.g. ILBM & PICS)
JPEG - JPEG
File Interchange Format (V1.02)
MIFF - Machine Independent
Format
NAP - The
NAPLPS objected-oriented format [Archive]
netCDF - The
network Common Data Form [Link]
PIX - Used by
SGI Alias|Wavefront products
PCX - Used by PC Paintbrush
PCX Specification
Additional PCX
Information
PNG - Portable Network
Graphics Specification [Link]
PBM+ - Enhanced Portable Bitmap toolkit
PBMPlus
overview man page
PBM (monochrome
bitmaps: 1 bit per pixel)
PGM (greyscale
images)
PPM (full-colour
images)
PNM (general
image format)
RLE - Utah
Run Length Encoded Format
RAS - Sun
Raster File Format
RGB/RGBA - SGI Colour Image File
Format
SLD/SLB - AutoDesk Slide File Format
SLD Slide File Format
Specification
SLB Slide Library
File Format Specification
SPRITE - Acorn's
bitmap format for their RISC OS [Link]
TGA - Targa
File Format (this link incomplete with mistakes at Image Descriptor)
Targe Spec Table
of Contents (PostScript)
Targa Specification
(PostScript)
TIFF - Tag Image File Format
Tiff Revision 4
Info
Tiff Revision 5
Info
Tiff Revision 6
Spec.
Tiff Class F
Specification
VIFF - Used by the Khoros
Visualisation package
X - The AVS
Image Format
XBM - X
BitMap Format
XPM - X
PixMap Format
XWD - X
Window Dump Format
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