How to output the Cascading images or stacking images - image

Question

See above image, if there are 24 pictures, how to use MATLAB to achieve this output effect. This kind of graph often appears in papers. I define a function, but there is one line of code that cannot be implemented.
function h = op(file_path, pad,m,n)
img_path_list = dir(strcat(file_path,'*.jpg'));
num = length(img_path_list);%
% [m,n]=size(image);
fw=n+(num-1)*pad;
fh=m+(num-1)*pad;
h=figure('position',[0,0,fw+pad,fh+pad]);
for j = 1:num
image_name = img_path_list(j).name;
image = imread(strcat(file_path,image_name));
hold on
pd=(j-1)*pad;
rpl=fw-n-pd;
rpb=fh-m-pd;
%How to specify the location of the output on the image canvas
% set('Position',[rpl rpb n m]);
% axes('position',[rpl rpb n m]);
imshow (image);
end
% h=gcf;

Answer 1

You can use the Xdata, and Ydata in imshow() function to set the axis position of each image to display them on the same axis stacked one upon other shifted to a fixed units for each image.
The code illustrating the procedure is given below.
close all
% read the images in metrices
i1 = imread('onion.png');
i2 = imread('cameraman.tif');
i3 = imread('peppers.png');
i4 = imread('moon.tif');
i5 = imread('trees.tif');
i6 = imread('greens.jpg');
% create a cell array of the images
imgs = {i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6};
% variable to shift the position of each image
shift = 0;
% looping from 1 to length of the cell arrays
for i = 1:numel(imgs)
% display image, shifting the position to 2 units
% for each image on the same axis
imshow(imgs{i}, 'XData', [1+shift 10+shift], ...
'YData', [1+shift 10+shift],'InitialMagnification', 400)
% hold on the axis
hold on
% increment the shift value
shift = shift + 2;
end
% set the axis limits
xlim([1 10+shift])
ylim([1 10+shift])
% hide the axis lines
axis off
Sample Output