Vips.Image.replicate

### Method

# Vips Imagereplicate

#### Declaration [src]

    int
    vips_replicate (
      VipsImage* in,
      VipsImage** out,
      int across,
      int down,
      ...
    )

#### Description [src]

Repeats an image many times.

See also

`vips_extract_area()`.

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

#### Parameters

`out`

  Type: `VipsImage`

  Output image.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

`across`

  Type: `int`

  Repeat input this many times across.

`down`

  Type: `int`

  Repeat input this many times down.

`...`

  Type: ``

  `NULL`-terminated list of optional named arguments.

#### Return value

Type: `int`

0 on success, -1 on error.