Designed to be a standard image format for storing high-quality colour images on multiple computer platforms.
GeoTiffĪ Raster Image file, high-quality graphics format. DWG files can be viewed on Windows using Autodesk's free DWG TrueView program or with other third-party applications. DXF format, which is an ASCII version of DWG. DWGĪ Database of 2D or 3D drawings created with AutoCAD a popular vector image format that stores both design data and metadata that describes the contents of the file related to the. The DXF format was developed as a universal format so that AutoCAD documents could be opened more easily with other programs. DWG format, but is more compatible with other programs since it is ASCII (text) based. DXFĪ Vector Image Files data format developed by Autodesk and used for CAD (computer-aided design) vector image files, such as AutoCAD documents. CSVĪ “Comma Separated Value” file format contains data sets separated by commas, where each new line represents a new row values can be organized into cells by a spreadsheet program or inserted into a database. For this reason, JPEG and GIF images are used on the Web, while BMP images are often used for printable images. The JPEG and GIF formats are also bitmaps, but use image compression algorithms that can significantly decrease their file size. The BMP format stores colour data for each pixel in the image without any compression, while this method of storing image information allows for crisp, high-quality graphics it also produces large file sizes. It is recognized by many programs on both Macs and PCs. BMPĪn uncompressed raster image file made up of a rectangular grid of pixels each pixel is a different colour (or level of grey for greyscale images), which together form an image zooming in on a bitmap image will make it appear blocky since the size of each pixel increases.īMP is short for “Bitmap”, the BMP format is a commonly used raster graphic format for saving image files.
ASCII makes is possible for text to be represented the same way on a Microsoft OS PC as it is on an Apple Mac.
“American Standard Code for Information Interchange” is the universal standard for the numerical codes computers use to represent all upper and lower-case letters, numbers, and punctuation.
ASCIIĪ Plain text file formatted in ASCII. A 3D image format used by Autodesk 3D Studio contains mesh data, material attributes, bitmap references, smoothing group data, viewport configurations, camera locations, and lighting information may also include object animation data.