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## 6.7.7 The image type

These represent a low-level handle to a VIPS image structure. You can make them with the `vips_image` builtin, and you can pass them as parameters to VIPS functions. The `Image` class is built on top of them, see §6.12.3.

As an accident of history, `nip2` also lets you do arithmetic with them. This will probably be removed in the next version or two, so it's best to go through the higher-level `Image` class.