How to display many images in a grid?

[jo-mueller]

With napari 0.6.2, the grid mode now links the images in every grid tile under the assumptions that every tile is a different view of the same data. However, that conflicts a bit with how cross-layer functionality is currently done in the napari-clusters-plotter. The previous way of unlinked grid tiles was actually quite nice for this.

I guess one way of solving this would be to partially undo #422, which used the grid stride first to make the layer ordering a bit more natural and easy to use. Another way would be to do it as before and arrange tiles using the translate property of the layers.

CC @brisvag - do you maybe have a suggestion for us on how to do this?

For reference see doc pages - it was a cool feature to zoom in/out into individual tiles as if they were samples in a plate :)

[brisvag]

I'm not familiar with the specific use of the grid here, however at a glance I would say that yes, if you want you layers to be physically non-overlapping in world space, you should use translate.

We discussed that we might want to provide a utility function that applies translations like the old behaviour if enough people want it :)

[jo-mueller]

We discussed that we might want to provide a utility function that applies translations like the old behaviour if enough people want it :)

I would totally make use of such a function :) I guess I'll tinker around with that a bit here - maybe it could be astarting point for a feature in napari later.