---
title: "formRamp(withInitialValue:multiplyingBy:increment:result:)"
framework: accelerate
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Method
path: "accelerate/vdsp/formramp(withinitialvalue:multiplyingby:increment:result:)-4r0kz"
---

# formRamp(withInitialValue:multiplyingBy:increment:result:)

Populates a single-precision vector that contains monotonically incrementing or decrementing values, and multiplies that vector by a source vector.

## Declaration

```swift
static func formRamp<U, V>(withInitialValue initialValue: inout Float, multiplyingBy vector: U, increment: Float, result: inout V) where U : AccelerateBuffer, V : AccelerateMutableBuffer, U.Element == Float, V.Element == Float
```

## Parameters

- `initialValue`: On input, the initial value of the ramp. On output, the next value in the ramp.
- `vector`: The input vector that the function multiplies by the ramp.
- `increment`: The increment, or decrement if negative, between each generated element.
- `result`: The result.

## Discussion

Discussion Use this function to generate and return a vector populated with ramped values with each element multiplied by the corresponding element in a second vector. The following code generates a ramped vector with values in the range 0 ... 7. The function multiplies elements at even indices by 10 and multiplies elements at odd indices by 100.     let n = 8          var initialValue: Float = 0     let increment: Float = 1          let ramp = [Float](unsafeUninitializedCapacity: n) {         buffer, initializedCount in                  vDSP.formRamp(withInitialValue: &initialValue,                       multiplyingBy: [10, 100, 10, 100, 10, 100, 10, 100],                       increment: increment,                       result: &buffer)                  initializedCount = n     }          // Prints "[0.0, 100.0, 20.0, 300.0, 40.0, 500.0, 60.0, 700.0]".     print(ramp)          // Prints "8".     print(initialValue)

## See Also

### Type Methods

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