Question

I want to convert an image into a NumPy array to a PySide QPixmap, so I can display it (EDIT: in my PySide UI). I already found this tool: qimage2ndarray, but it only works for PyQt4. I tried to change it to get it working with PySide, but I would have to change the C part of the tool and I have no experience with C. How can I do this or are there any alternatives?

Answer 1

One alternative is to just use PIL library.

>>> import numpy as np
>>> import Image
>>> im = Image.fromarray(np.random.randint(0,256,size=(100,100,3)).astype(np.uint8))
>>> im.show()

You can look at the QPixmap constructor at http://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside/PySide/QtGui/QImage.html.

It looks like you should be able to use a numpy array directly in the constructor:

class PySide.QtGui.QImage(data, width, height, format)

where the format argument is one of these: http://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside/PySide/QtGui/QImage.html#PySide.QtGui.PySide.QtGui.QImage.Format.

So, for example you could do something like:

>>> a = np.random.randint(0,256,size=(100,100,3)).astype(np.uint32)
>>> b = (255 << 24 | a[:,:,0] << 16 | a[:,:,1] << 8 | a[:,:,2]).flatten() # pack RGB values
>>> im = PySide.QtGui.QImage(b, 100, 100, PySide.QtGui.QImage.Format_RGB32)

I don’t have PySide installed so I haven’t tested this. Chances are it won’t work as is, but it might guide you in the right direction.