# VkImage(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImage - Opaque handle to an image object

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## C Specification

Images represent multidimensional - up to 3 - arrays of data which can be used for various purposes (e.g. attachments, textures), by binding them to a graphics or compute pipeline via descriptor sets, or by directly specifying them as parameters to certain commands.

Images are represented by `VkImage` handles:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkImage)

## See Also

VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE, VK_VERSION_1_0, VkBindImageMemoryInfo, VkBlitImageInfo2, VkCopyBufferToImageInfo2, VkCopyImageInfo2, VkCopyImageToBufferInfo2, VkCopyImageToImageInfo, VkCopyImageToMemoryInfo, VkCopyMemoryToImageInfo, VkDedicatedAllocationMemoryAllocateInfoNV, VkExportMetalIOSurfaceInfoEXT, VkExportMetalTextureInfoEXT, VkFrameBoundaryEXT, VkHostImageLayoutTransitionInfo, VkImageCaptureDescriptorDataInfoEXT, VkImageMemoryBarrier, VkImageMemoryBarrier2, VkImageMemoryRequirementsInfo2, VkImageSparseMemoryRequirementsInfo2, VkImageViewCreateInfo, VkMemoryDedicatedAllocateInfo, VkResolveImageInfo2, VkSparseImageMemoryBindInfo, VkSparseImageOpaqueMemoryBindInfo, vkBindImageMemory, vkCmdBlitImage, vkCmdClearColorImage, vkCmdClearDepthStencilImage, vkCmdCopyBufferToImage, vkCmdCopyImage, vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer, vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectNV, vkCmdResolveImage, vkCreateImage, vkDestroyImage, vkGetImageDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT, vkGetImageMemoryRequirements, vkGetImageSparseMemoryRequirements, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout2, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout2EXT, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout2KHR, vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

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