Layered Image File Format (LIFF) is a
file format
A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary or free.
Some file formats ...
used in the Openlab suite for
microscope image processing. It is a proprietary format, but has an open, extensible form analogous to
TIFF. It was specifically designed to contain a large number of high resolution images, and also all of the meta data generated by analysis of such images.
Apart from being an acronym, the name LIFF was chosen to honour
Douglas Adams and
John Lloyd John Lloyd may refer to:
Artists, writers, and entertainers
*John J. Lloyd (1922–2014), American art director and production designer
*John Lloyd (graphic designer) (born 1944), co-founder of design consultancy Lloyd Northover
*John Lloyd (journa ...
's ''
The Meaning of Liff'', which was in turn named after
Liff Liff or LIFF may refer to:
People with the family name
* Biff Liff (1919-2015), Tony Award-winning American Broadway manager and producer.
* Vincent Liff (1915-2003), American film director from West Hartford, Connecticut.
Other
* Liff, Angus, v ...
, a town in Scotland.
Graphics file formats
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