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/*!
    \example proceduraltexture
    \ingroup quick3d-examples
    \title Qt Quick 3D - Procedural Texture Example
    \examplecategory {Data Visualization & 3D}
    \brief Demonstrates how to provide custom texture data from C++ or QML.
    \image proceduraltexture-example.jpg

    This example makes use of QQuick3DTextureData and \l{Texture::textureData}{the
    textureData property} of Texture to provide texture data generated dynamically at
    runtime instead of loading it from a static asset. For demonstration purposes
    this example generates two gradient textures in C++ and QML respectively.

    First we define a C++ class for our texture data. We make it a subclass
    of QQuick3DTextureData. This is not stricly necessary, since there are no
    virtual functions, but it is much more convenient to have everything in
    one class. We define the properties we are going to use, and add
    \l QML_NAMED_ELEMENT to make it available from QML:

    \snippet proceduraltexture/gradienttexture.h class definition
    \dots

    We add a function to update the texture. It uses \l QQuick3DTextureData::setSize,
    and \l QQuick3DTextureData::setFormat to configure the texture, and
    \l QQuick3DTextureData::setTextureData to set the image data:
    \snippet proceduraltexture/gradienttexture.cpp updateTexture

    The function \c generateTexture creates a QByteArray of the correct size, and
    fills it with image data:
    \snippet proceduraltexture/gradienttexture.cpp generateTexture

    We call \c updateTexture each time a property is changed:
    \snippet proceduraltexture/gradienttexture.cpp property

    Finally, we can use our new texture from QML:
    \snippet proceduraltexture/Main.qml cppTexture

    It is also possible to generate the same texture data in QML. In this case we
    use the ProceduralTextureData component:
    \snippet proceduraltexture/Main.qml qmlTexture

    Just like in C++ we fill a QByteArray with image data that reflects the size and
    format of the texture. When doing this from QML use the ArrayBuffer type to avoid
    unnecessary type conversion.
*/
