Should we have the option to load image non-virtually?

[hinerm]

Currently we always force CELL mode when opening images. We should consider providing users an option to load whole images in one pass, i.e. in the import command.

[hinerm]

@ctrueden was there a design reason we would always want to open images as CELL?

Also, I experimented opening images in ARRAY mode and still got back a virtual image in ImageJ.. what's the current mechanism for getting a non-virtual image when opening datasets in Fiji?

[imagesc-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Image.sc Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.image.sc/t/imagej-omero-5-5-5-6-update-site-ready-for-testing/69394/4

[ctrueden]

was there a design reason we would always want to open images as CELL?

It just seemed simpler. If it's small and you want it all loaded into local memory, just duplicate it.

Ideally, even apart from OMERO, I'd love if ImageJ2 always opened images as cell, and if you want something else, you make a copy.

[ctrueden]

what's the current mechanism for getting a non-virtual image when opening datasets in Fiji?

There might not be one. An ImageJ2 image is fundamentally not an ImagePlus object. I believe when @maarzt improved the imglib2-ij layer, we opted for always virtual, because ultimately the ImageProcessor is backed by an ImgLib2 data structure.