Re: So I just found out that PIL will load images from a memory buffer... we should have something like this as well...

Hi Chris 2009/10/13 Chris Colbert <sccolbert@gmail.com>:

This is incredibly valuable and I think we should consider adding such capability to scikits image. I'd even be willing to work on this after I'm done with the opencv stuff.

We may be able to modify imread in a trivial way to handle this. See http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/numpy/lib/_datasource.py Stéfan