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Otter@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months ago

TIL that 'asdf' is a proposed replacement data format for astronomical images and other scientific data

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TIL that 'asdf' is a proposed replacement data format for astronomical images and other scientific data

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Otter@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months ago
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Advanced Scientific Data Format - Wikipedia
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I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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  • https://www.asdf-format.org/projects/asdf-standard/en/1.1.1/
  • https://github.com/asdf-format/asdf
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    Tagged Image File Format

    It was created before creativity was discovered.

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      Was it used by fax machines?

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        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.

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