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Portable Bitmap
The lowest common denominator of image formats.
PBM (Portable Bitmap) is the simplest format in the Netpbm suite, designed to represent monochrome (black and white) images. It uses a straightforward text-based (or simple binary) encoding where '1' represents black and '0' represents white (or vice versa depending on the viewer, though standard entails 1=black). It was designed to be easily emailed and processed by simple scripts.
There are two variants: P1 (ASCII) and P4 (Binary). ASCII P1: The file is human-readable text. A grid of 0s and 1s defines the image. Binary P4: The bits are packed into bytes for efficiency. The header simply states the magic number (P1 or P4) and the dimensions. There is no compression, no index, no palette.
Invented by Jef Poskanzer in the 1980s as a way to send bitmaps via email properly. It became the foundation of the 'pbmplus' (later 'netpbm') toolkit, which provided a standard way to convert between dozens of incompatible 80s file formats.
Truevision TGA (Targa)
The simple, reliable workhorse of video game textures.
TGA (Truevision Graphics Adapter), often called TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created in 1984. It was the first truecolor (24-bit) format for PC cards. Despite its age, it remains incredibly popular in the video game industry and broadcast graphics because it supports an alpha channel (32-bit images) and is extremely simple to parse.
A TGA file starts with an 18-byte header, followed by image identity information, optional color map, and then the pixel data. The pixel data can be raw or RLE compressed. The 32-bit version (RGBA) is particularly valued because the alpha channel is stored as a simple 4th byte per pixel, making it trivial for game engines to use.
Developed by Truevision for their TARGA and AT-Vista boards, which brought broadcast-quality video graphics to the IBM PC. It became the lingua franca of VGA graphics.
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