What is the prefered way to read in images in
> numarray/matplotlib?
No good way, currently. I plan to add a PNG loader in the near
future. Would this suffice for you? What do you think are the core
set of image formats that matplotlib should support? ... the fewer the
better!
> I know of PIL but it seems like a lot of overlap with
> numarray just to read an image from file.
True, but for the record, here is the recipe I use to do the PIL ->
numerix conversion
import Image
from matplotlib.matlab import *
im = Image.open('../data/leo_ratner.jpg')
s = im.tostring() # convert PIL image -> string
# convert string -> numerix array of floats
rgb = fromstring(s, UInt8).astype(Float)/255.0
# resize to RGB array
rgb = resize(rgb, (im.size[1], im.size[0], 3))
imshow(rgb, interpolation='nearest')
axis('off') # don't display the image axis
show()