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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Scientific_Data_Format

I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

asdfMovie.asdf

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I made you a pie!

BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What flavor?

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

P I E F L A V O U R

°sick guitar shred°

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

ASDFM, better than the best.

mox@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y

You might also appreciate the ABC musical notation format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Can't be more complicated than TIFF

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 1y

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.

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Today Is Fucking Friday?

db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Tagged Image File Format

It was created before creativity was discovered.

I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Was it used by fax machines?

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y

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.

7uWqKj@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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

qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y

No love for us Dvorak users :(

qaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Seems to be an alternatieve to using CSV's for datasets with some more advanced features