Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike is a wavelet-compressed raster image format, and associated software, developed by Infinop, Inc.

Identification
Files apparently begin with the ASCII signature "".

Software

 * [ Lightning Strike Image Compressor (LSIC) v2.5] (32-bit Windows GUI)
 * ls26.exe - Netscape plug-in v2.6
 * lstplug.exe - Netscape plug-in v1.7

Sample files

 * Microsoft Internet Explorer Starter Kit → WIN95/ENG/EXTRAS/CONTROLS/INFINOP/COD/*.COD
 * fox.cod, wolf.cod
 * exodus2000.cod

Links

 * Lightning Strike Information (from archive.org)
 * A press release about the ActiveX control
 * Patents possibly related to this format: WO1998040842A1