---
title: planarBuffers()
framework: accelerate
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-4qws5
---

# planarBuffers()

Returns four 32-bit planar pixel buffers that contain the deinterleaved channels of the 8-bit buffer.

## Declaration

```swift
func planarBuffers() -> [vImage.PixelBuffer<vImage.PlanarF>]
```

## Return Value

Return Value An array of planar pixel buffers.

## Discussion

Discussion This function treats 32-bit floating point pixels represented by the range 0 ... 1 as the Pixel_8 range `0 … 255`. Use this function to deinterleave a buffer and create four new planar buffers that contain copies of each source channel. For example, the following code generates four 1 x 1 planar buffers from an vImage.Interleaved8x4 pixel buffer: let src = vImage.PixelBuffer<vImage.Interleaved8x4>(     pixelValues: [255 / 17, 255 / 15, 255 / 5, 255 / 3] as [UInt8],     size: vImage.Size(width: 1, height: 1))

let planarBuffers: [vImage.PixelBuffer<vImage.PlanarF>] = src.planarBuffers()

// Prints "[0.058823533] [0.06666667] [0.20000002] [0.33333334]" // ≅ [ 1 / 17, 1 / 15, 1 / 5, 1 / 3] for planarBuffer in planarBuffers {     print(planarBuffer.array) }

## See Also

### Generating planar buffers from interleaved buffers

- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-462ja.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-5r3ds.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-5rx2w.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-49gf9.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-1rj01.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-82ook.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-l33r.md)
- [planarBuffers()](accelerate/vimage/pixelbuffer/planarbuffers()-35dnv.md)