Xerox Doodle brush

File Format
Name	Xerox Doodle brush
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Xerox Doodle brush
Extension(s)	.brush
Released	1980

See Doodle for other uses of the term.

Xerox Doodle brush is a simple bi-level image format supported by Pbmplus/Netpbm.

We suspect the format is associated with the only Xerox product we can find named Doodle: a paint program for the Xerox Dandelion computer (related to the Xerox Star). Doodle was written by Dan Silva (who later created Deluxe Paint) and Bill Bowman around 1980.

Format

Files apparently have a 16-byte header, beginning with 0x01 0x00.

Software

• Netpbm: brushtopbm

Links

• IEEE Bushy Tree wiki: Doodle
• The Xerox "Star": A Retrospective
• Dan Silva Biography
• Wikipedia: Xerox Star (Discusses Xerox Dandelion)