Eclipse TILE

File Format
Name	Eclipse TILE
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Eclipse TILE
Extension(s)	.tile

Eclipse TILE is a raster graphics format associated with Eclipse, an image editing program.

Eclipse was developed by various companies, include Full Color Computing, and Alias Research. There were versions for Windows, and SGI workstations.

More research is needed to understand the purpose of .tile format, its relationship to other Eclipse formats, and whether the Windows and SGI formats are the same.

Identification

At least some .tile files start with bytes 0x07 0x28, and have ASCII "Eclipse" at offset 16.

Software

• XnView claims to support "Eclipse .tile" format, but confirmation is needed.

Sample files

• Hot Mix 5 (SGI-specific format, probably an EFS image) → demos/Publishing/Alias/dist/.../*.tile

Links

• Wikipedia: Alias Eclipse