Format Set — Fruit Still Life (HEIC)
A 1024×1024 fruit still life exported as HEIC — the HEIF/HEVC member of the conversion set, the format modern phones use for photos.
Rendered preview of the heic file (65.6 KB). Download above for the original.
Specifications
- Width
- 1024
- Height
- 1024
- Format
- HEIC
- Codec
- HEVC
- Content
- identical across the set
What is a .heic file?
HEIC is the HEIF container variant holding HEVC (H.265)-encoded still images, the default photo format on modern Apple devices. It offers strong compression with support for high bit depth, wide color, and image sequences or bursts. Decoding requires HEVC support, which is patent-encumbered and not universal.
How to use this file
Use an example HEIC to test Apple-photo import, HEVC still-image decoding, and conversion pipelines that transcode HEIC to JPEG or PNG for broader compatibility.
How to use this file for testing
“Format Set — Fruit Still Life (HEIC)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: 1024×1024 · HEIC. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
For image AI or enhancement tools, run the model or filter on this file and diff against the clean or ground-truth companion in the same group when available. Keep seeds and documented damage parameters in your evaluation notes so regressions are attributable.
Code examples
<img src="testcard.heic" alt="Example image" width="640" loading="lazy">Related files
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- jpgCMYK JPEG (print colour space)The fruit still life converted to the CMYK (print) colour space and saved as a JPEG — for testing CMYK decoding and CMYK→RGB conversion. Some web viewers render CMYK JPEGs with a colour shift.
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