On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Stéfan van der Walt wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Neil Yager <yager.neil@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree that there are some benefits of both viewers. However, I work
>> a lot with 16-bit greyscale, and I like the pan & zoom of the
>> matplotlib-based viewer. Therefore, I've found myself using the
>> TIFFFile one more lately. Adding the line profile & some contrast
>> adjustment to this viewer would be great.
>
> If you can improve the matplotlib version of imshow, that would be
> much appreciated.  Let me know if you need a hand with anything.  The
> source is in:
>
> skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
>
> Currently it just sets interpolation to 'nearest' and 'cmap' to gray
> by default (behaviour that is important to keep).

The tifffile one actually seems pretty feature-rich. I'm not sure best how to incproprate it into the tifffile skimage plugin, or if maybe it should just live side-by-side as another matplotlib plugin.

The problem with having it as a part of the tifffile IO plugin is that the plugin.ini file would have to state that it provides an imshow(), but the plugin itself would then either have to stub out imshow() if matplotlib (required for the tifffile imshow) is not present, or not provide imshow() in the first place in this case. Any thoughts?

Zach