Format

Portable Pixel Map - Binary

Summary

Name: Portable Pixel Map - Binary
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/408
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Format encoding: Binary
File extensions: ppm, ppmb
Submitted by: Georgia Tech Research Institute / Georgia Tech Research Institute

Description: “P6” followed by comment, followed by width, height, colour.
Provenance: PPM. User Manual for Netpbm http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: None
Byte Sequence: 5036(20|0D|0A)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)
Endianness: None

Description: “P6” followed by width, height.
Provenance: PPM. User Manual for Netpbm http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: None
Byte Sequence: 5036(20|0D|0A){0-2}23{0-70}0A(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)(30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|20|0A|0D)
Endianness: None