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TIL that 'asdf' is a proposed replacement data format for astronomical images and other scientific data (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can't be more complicated than TIFF

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

The fuck? Most formats are more complicated than TIFF. TIFF is so simple, you barely have to read 30 pages of well written spec to modify it with just a hex editor. You don't get much simpler with a binary format. Want something complicated? Try implementing PDF with it's hundreds to thousands of pages per version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Today Is Fucking Friday?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You’re confusing it with TGIF, or Today’s Girls in Files, an ancient file format for animated erotica with poor colour depth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tagged Image File Format

It was created before creativity was discovered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was it used by fax machines?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I don't know about fax machines but a lot of scanners used it. You can also have multi-page .tiff files of lossless images, though they're generally huge files.