VkSamplerReductionMode(3)

# VkSamplerReductionMode(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkSamplerReductionMode - Specify reduction mode for texture filtering

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## C Specification

Reduction modes are specified by VkSamplerReductionMode, which takes values:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_2
    typedef enum VkSamplerReductionMode {
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE = 0,
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN = 1,
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX = 2,
      // Provided by VK_QCOM_filter_cubic_clamp
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM = 1000521000,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_EXT = VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN_EXT = VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax
        VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX_EXT = VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX,
    } VkSamplerReductionMode;

or the equivalent

    // Provided by VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax
    typedef VkSamplerReductionMode VkSamplerReductionModeEXT;

## Description

- `VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE` specifies that texel values are combined by computing a weighted average of values in the footprint, using weights as specified in the image operations chapter.

- `VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MIN` specifies that texel values are combined by taking the component-wise minimum of values in the footprint with non-zero weights.

- `VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_MAX` specifies that texel values are combined by taking the component-wise maximum of values in the footprint with non-zero weights.

- `VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE_RANGECLAMP_QCOM` specifies values are combined as described by `VK_SAMPLER_REDUCTION_MODE_WEIGHTED_AVERAGE`, followed by a texel range clamp.

## See Also

VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax, VK_VERSION_1_2, VkSamplerReductionModeCreateInfo

## 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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