# VkImageType(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImageType - Specifies the type of an image object

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## C Specification

Possible values of VkImageCreateInfo::`imageType`, specifying the basic dimensionality of an image, are:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef enum VkImageType {
        VK_IMAGE_TYPE_1D = 0,
        VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D = 1,
        VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D = 2,
    } VkImageType;

## Description

- `VK_IMAGE_TYPE_1D` specifies a one-dimensional image.

- `VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D` specifies a two-dimensional image.

- `VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D` specifies a three-dimensional image.

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkImageCreateInfo, VkPhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2, VkPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatInfo2, VkVideoFormatPropertiesKHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalImageFormatPropertiesNV, vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties, vkGetPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatProperties

## 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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