New Format : Tilt Brush

[archivistamanda]

Format name

Tilt Brush
Note: I've been seeing reference to the .tilt format as also being the Open Brush format

Version number

N/A

PUID

N/A

Extensions

tilt

MIME/Media Type

N/A

Description

Tilt Brush files are outputs from the Open Brush software and Google Tilt Brush application (discontinued), which allows the user to create digital paintings in virtual reality rendering a 3D image. The format has a prepended header and the format's zipped contents contain information about brush strokes, an array of models that can be imported into the sketch and a metadata.json file. This format is considered a container format.

Format type

Model

Is Related To

N/A

Vendor

The format is currently maintained by Open Brush

File format identification signatures

Signature: 74696C54
Signature Description: BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: tilT

Tilt Brush Version 23 Release Notes

Samples

https://doi.org/10.20383/103.0917 - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

References

• Open Brush Documentation

Credit

Digital Research Alliance of Canada - Federated Research Data Repository / Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada - Dépôt fédéré de données de recherche

[archivistamanda]

@tnafrancesca I know this is a container format, but I'm submitting the signature as a binary signature after having a discussion with Tyler. Happy to have more discussion about it!

[tnafrancesca]

That makes complete sense. Sometimes a binary signature is better even if it is a container format.