SGI (image file format)

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* [[ImageMagick]] (format named "SGI")
 
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* [http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_5_5/src.contrib/CERL/SGI/libimage/ libimage]
 
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== Sample files ==
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* [http://ftp.funet.fi/index/graphics/packages/volvis/RGB.tar.Z RGB.tar.Z]
  
 
== External links ==
 
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* [[Wikipedia:Silicon Graphics Image|Wikipedia article]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Silicon Graphics Image|Wikipedia article]]
 
* {{EGFF|sgiimage|SGI Image File Format File Format Summary}}, from the [[Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats]]
 
* {{EGFF|sgiimage|SGI Image File Format File Format Summary}}, from the [[Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats]]

Revision as of 22:53, 28 June 2015

File Format
Name SGI (image file format)
Ontology
Extension(s) .sgi, .bw, .rgb, .rgba
PRONOM x-fmt/140

SGI (also known as IRIS, and sometimes called RGB or Irix RGB) is a raster image file format. The image may be uncompressed, or use RLE compression.

SGI probably stands for Silicon Graphics Image.

Contents

Image types

SGI supports the following image types:

  • Grayscale, 8 or 16 bits/sample
  • RGB, 8 or 16 bits/sample
  • RGBA, 8 or 16 bits/sample
  • RGB 3-3-2, 8 bits/pixel (obsolete)
  • Colormapped (but no palette is stored in the file) (obsolete)
  • Colormap (file contains only a palette; no image) (obsolete)

Format

SGI files start with a 512-byte fixed header, most of which is unused. If the image is uncompressed, the pixel data follows. Compressed images have a scanline table, followed by the compressed pixel data.

The pixel data is stored from bottom-up, instead of top-down as in most image formats.

Identification

SGI files begin with bytes 01 DA.

Specifications

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Sample files

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