simple-imshow

What it does:

Reads and displays an image from a url, local filename, PIL image object, numpy.ndimage object, or any object type scipy.misc.imread supports directly. Also contains an simread function that will return the image as a numpy.ndarray.

I’ve had to look up how to display an image in this context or that too many times. This is an attempt to remedy that.

Setup

$ pip install simple-imshow

Usage

>> from simshow import simshow
>> simshow('test-cats.jpg')  # display from local file
>> simshow('http://mathandy.com/escher_sphere.png')  # display from url

Request for Community Support:

I’d love for others to help me make this a more robust, more convenient tool – so, as the FAA likes to say, “If you see something, say something.” Or at least feel free to.

TODO:

• Add simple tool to take a list of images and display a random sample (or all) as a grid of thumbnails.

• Add support for plots.

Some thoughts on guidelines for this project:

• simread should be fast.

• I’d like to keep required dependencies limited to common ones available through pip (e.g. no requirement for opencv)

• It’d be nice if simshow could refresh quickly enough support video feeds. In my experience matplotlib figures will not though (I do not know matplotlib well though).