Python plot - stacked image slices

Question

I have a series of basic 2D images (3 for simplicity for now) and these are related to each other, analogous to frames from a movie:

Within python how may I stack the

Answer 1

Here is a completely silly way to accomplish using matplotlib and shear transformations (you probably need to tweak the transform matrix some more so the stacked images look correct):

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from scipy.ndimage.interpolation import affine_transform


nimages = 4
img_height, img_width = 512, 512
bg_val = -1 # Some flag value indicating the background.

# Random test images.
rs = np.random.RandomState(123)
img = rs.randn(img_height, img_width)*0.1
images = [img+(i+1) for i in range(nimages)]

stacked_height = 2*img_height
stacked_width  = img_width + (nimages-1)*img_width/2
stacked = np.full((stacked_height, stacked_width), bg_val)

# Affine transform matrix.
T = np.array([[1,-1],
              [0, 1]])

for i in range(nimages):
    # The first image will be right most and on the "bottom" of the stack.
    o = (nimages-i-1) * img_width/2
    out = affine_transform(images[i], T, offset=[o,-o],
                           output_shape=stacked.shape, cval=bg_val)
    stacked[out != bg_val] = out[out != bg_val]

plt.imshow(stacked, cmap=plt.cm.viridis)
plt.show()