# Imageio standard images

Imageio provides a number of standard images. These include classic 2D images, as well as animated and volumetric images. To the best of our knowledge, all the listed images are in public domain.

The image names can be loaded by using a special URI, e.g. `imread('imageio:astronaut.png')`. The images are automatically downloaded (and cached in your appdata directory).

- chelsea.bsdf: The chelsea.png in a BSDF file(for testing)

- newtonscradle.gif: Animated GIF of a newton’s cradle

- cockatoo.mp4: Video file of a cockatoo

- stent.npz: Volumetric image showing a stented abdominal aorta

- astronaut.png: Image of the astronaut Eileen Collins

- camera.png: Classic grayscale image of a photographer

- checkerboard.png: Black and white image of a chekerboard

- chelsea.png: Image of Stefan’s cat

- clock.png: Photo of a clock with motion blur (Stefan van der Walt)

- coffee.png: Image of a cup of coffee (Rachel Michetti)

- coins.png: Image showing greek coins from Pompeii

- horse.png: Image showing the silhouette of a horse (Andreas Preuss)

- hubble_deep_field.png: Photograph taken by Hubble telescope (NASA)

- immunohistochemistry.png: Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining

- moon.png: Image showing a portion of the surface of the moon

- page.png: A scanned page of text

- text.png: A photograph of handdrawn text

- wikkie.png: Image of Almar’s cat

- chelsea.zip: The chelsea.png in a zipfile (for testing)