Display multiple images in one IPython Notebook cell?

Question

If I have multiple images (loaded as NumPy arrays) how can I display the in one IPython Notebook cell?

I know that I can use plt.imshow(ima) to display

Answer 1

The answers in this thread helped me: Combine several images horizontally with Python

The problem of using matplotlib was the displayed images' definition was really bad. I adapted one of the answers there to my needs:

The following code displays the images concatenated horizontaly in a jupyter notebook. Notice the commented line with the code to save the image if you'd like that.

import numpy as np
import PIL
from IPython.display import display

list_im = ['Test1.jpg', 'Test2.jpg', 'Test3.jpg']
imgs    = [ PIL.Image.open(i) for i in list_im ]
# pick the image which is the smallest, and resize the others to match it (can be arbitrary image shape here)
min_shape = sorted( [(np.sum(i.size), i.size ) for i in imgs])[0][1]
imgs_comb = np.hstack( (np.asarray( i.resize(min_shape) ) for i in imgs ) )

# save that beautiful picture
imgs_comb = PIL.Image.fromarray( imgs_comb)
#imgs_comb.save( 'combo.jpg' )    

display(imgs_comb)