I wish they'd mentioned my favorite image format: XPM. Open one of those in gVim and prepare to be amazed.
Image file formats that didn’t make it
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#72Can we write FLIF off, or does it still have a chance at wider adoption? I remember quite a positive reaction on release, but don't see it in the wild, unfortunately. https://flif.info/
There was also an update to it called FUIF - Free Universal Image Format
https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif
But it too got superseded by JPEG XL (.jxl) https://jpegxl.info/
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#73Tiff is very much not dead. It is likely one of the image formats more widely used today. Terabytes of new tiff images are prodced every hour and distributed by many remote sensing operators. It is a really flexible and robust format also. How else are you going to store a floating-point multispectral image of 8 bands and 50.000 x 50.000 pixels, arranged tile-wise for easy cropping?
I think all the RAW formats generated by digital cameras are really just slightly customized TIFFs.
Re: Image file formats that didn’t make it
#74Can we write FLIF off, or does it still have a chance at wider adoption? I remember quite a positive reaction on release, but don't see it in the wild, unfortunately. https://flif.info/
"FLIF development has stopped since FLIF is superseded by FUIF and then again by JPEG XL, " Smells very dead to me.
I believe that the developer of FLIF integrated much of the tech into JPEG XL.
It seems to happen a lot with codecs (e.g., Xiph's Dalaa tech merging into AV1, or Xiph's CELT and Microsoft's SILK merging into Opus). I see FLIF as the prototype and JPEG XL as the production version.
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#75Found VRML in there unexpected.
But was expecting MNG but didn't find it. Interesting history with that one, a few browsers implemented it but then removed it. Leading to a lot of geek angst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphic...
Re: Image file formats that didn’t make it
#76Tiff is very much not dead. It is likely one of the image formats more widely used today. Terabytes of new tiff images are prodced every hour and distributed by many remote sensing operators. It is a really flexible and robust format also. How else are you going to store a floating-point multispectral image of 8 bands and 50.000 x 50.000 pixels, arranged tile-wise for easy cropping?
AKA: Thousands of Image File Formats.
I still remember trying to explain to a previous employer why I needed Debabelizer to create appropriately-striped TIFFs in addition to Photoshop. In hindsight, the me of today would have said then, "I just need it to do this job, which will make you far more money than it costs to buy a single license." The me of then wasn't quite as savvy.
Re: Image file formats that didn’t make it
#77The successor to JPEG is going to be JPEG XL (.jxl) https://jpegxl.info/
What about webp, avif, and the like?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
BMP and TGA have the advantage that they're uncompressed, so it's mostly trivial to dump the contents of your framebuffer to a file without any major dependencies.
Agree about TGA, it is trivially easy to write. Example in C# for grayscale version, a single page of code: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/1.2/VrmacInterop/Util... BMP is more complicated, unfortunately. The header structure is more complex. And then there’s a requirement for rows to be 4-bytes aligned, might need to insert padding bytes between the rows.
The code for BMP isn't very complicated, the hard part is knowing all the rules and corner cases. Like the 4-byte alignment you mentioned, or the fact that the rows are in reverse order of what you'd expect (bottom up).
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#79I’d like to nominate aPNG. It works only on Firefox unfortunately.
Looks like times have changed:
Re: Image file formats that didn’t make it
#80Tiff is very much not dead. It is likely one of the image formats more widely used today. Terabytes of new tiff images are prodced every hour and distributed by many remote sensing operators. It is a really flexible and robust format also. How else are you going to store a floating-point multispectral image of 8 bands and 50.000 x 50.000 pixels, arranged tile-wise for easy cropping?
TIFF is wonderful because it's so optimized for performance. When you get the tiling lined up just exactly right with your storage device block/page/stripe size and your CPU cache sizes, it just screams.