automatically append images in a table with imagemagick

Question

I know this solution to append images in rows and columns.

By the way I would like to arrange the images in a square table automatically regardless of their number and without grouping them with the parenthesis.

Example output:

Is it possible to do that with Imagemagick?

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convert \( Img1.jpg Img2.jpg +append \) \
          \( Img3.jpg Img4.jpg +append \) \
          -background none -append   append_array.jpg

Answer 1

Montage from imagemagick.

You can easily use montage^[1] that you should have installed with imagemagick.

From the current directory you can run for example:

montage -resize 400x *  -mode Concatenate -tile 2x  AnotherDir/montage_array.jpg

Notes:

• You have to save in another directory (or select from another directory) else you could find an empty slot in place of the image that you are creating.

• -resize 400x to scale each source image to the same dimension

• -tile 2x to have 2 columns , -tile x2 for two rows...

•          #   +--------+---------+   Sequence of images
           #   +    1   +    2    +    for the code used
           #   +--------+---------+     in the above example
           #   +    3   +    4    +
           #   +--------+---------+   I cut the image from
           #   +    5   +    6... +     the one you post...
           #   +--------+---------+
  

• but you can do much much more...