Lightning Strike

File Format
Name	Lightning Strike
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Lightning Strike
Extension(s)	.cod
MIME Type(s)	image/cis-cod
Released	≤1996

Lightning Strike is a wavelet-compressed raster image format, and associated software, developed by Infinop, Inc.

Identification

Files apparently begin with the ASCII signature "CIS".

Software

• Lightning Strike Image Compressor (LSIC) v2.5 (32-bit Windows GUI)
• ls26.exe - Netscape plug-in v2.6
• lstplug.exe - Netscape plug-in v1.7

Sample files

• Microsoft Internet Explorer Starter Kit → WIN95/ENG/EXTRAS/CONTROLS/INFINOP/COD/*.COD
• fox.cod, wolf.cod
• exodus2000.cod

Links

• Lightning Strike Information (from archive.org)
• A press release about the ActiveX control
• Patents possibly related to this format: WO1998040842A1
• DSat - Decoding a 1990s file format ...