iflSGI(3)

NAME

iflSGI - SGI format image file

DESCRIPTION

This format is used to create and access image files stored in SGI's classic libimage format. This provides support for the large number of files that have already been created in this format on SGI machines. New files can be created in the more flexible, industry standard, TIFF format (see iflTIFF).

SGI files support full color, color palette, and monochrome images of either one or two bytes per color component. Image data can be stored in either raw form or RLE encoded.

The default extensions for image files in the SGI format are '.sgi', '.rgb', '.rgba', '.bw' and '.screen'. When you create a file with that extension IFL will assume you want the SGI format, unless you override it with the iflFormat parameter.

SEE ALSO

iflFile, ilFileImg