How to put the image as a background of the grid?

[Yureeets]

how to put the image as a background for the grid?
background_image_path = 'cities/lviv.png'

chart = mesa.visualization.ChartModule(
[{"Label": "Infected", "Color": "Black"}, data_collector_name="datacollector"
)
grid = mesa.visualization.CanvasGrid(agent_portrayal, config['width'], config['height'], 500, 500)

server = mesa.visualization.ModularServer(
VirusModel, [grid, chart], "VirusModel", model_params
)
server.port = 8521
server.launch()

[EwoutH]

Thanks for reaching out! This is an excellent question, I don't think you can do this by default in Mesa currently.

I know NetLogo has the Bitmap Extension and import-drawing, maybe we should have something like that as wel.

If you update to the latest Mesa pre-release (with pip install --upgrade --pre mesa) you can write a custom space drawer for SolaraViz. This would be somewhere in mesa/visualization/components. This is quite advanced though, and might not be trivial or easy.

@Corvince what do you think, is this something we might want to support? I know some cases like this where modellers like to use a map or something like that as background image.

Also maybe it would be nice to write a guide on how to create you own custom space drawer in SolaraViz.