"""
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Build image pyramids
====================

The ``pyramid_gaussian`` function takes an image and yields successive images
shrunk by a constant scale factor. Image pyramids are often used, e.g., to
implement algorithms for denoising, texture discrimination, and scale-
invariant detection.

"""
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from skimage import data
from skimage.transform import pyramid_gaussian


image = data.astronaut()
rows, cols, dim = image.shape
pyramid = tuple(pyramid_gaussian(image, downscale=2))

composite_image = np.zeros((rows, cols + cols / 2, 3), dtype=np.double)

composite_image[:rows, :cols, :] = pyramid[0]

i_row = 0
for p in pyramid[1:]:
    n_rows, n_cols = p.shape[:2]
    composite_image[i_row:i_row + n_rows, cols:cols + n_cols] = p
    i_row += n_rows

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.imshow(composite_image)
plt.show()

matplotlib.pyplot.show matplotlib.pyplot.subplots