VORT file

File Format
Name	VORT file
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics VORT file
Extension(s)	.pix
Released	≤1990

VORT file is a raster image format associated with the VORT (Very Ordinary Rendering Toolkit) ray tracer and image processing software.

Identification

VORT files begin with ASCII "VORT01".

There is also an old VORT format ("vort 1.0 image"). Old format files apparently begin with ?? ?? ff ff or ff ff ?? ??, depending on the endianness of the system they were created on.

Specifications

• vort.tar.gz → docs/vortfile.5, docs/vortfile.doc

Software

• vort.tar.gz - VORT 2.3.3
  • ppm2vort, vort2ppm, etc.
  • old/conv: Utility to convert old format to new format
• XnView claims to support Vort PIX, but we could not confirm.