html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5376#issuecomment-852431061,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5376,852431061,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MjQzMTA2MQ==,25432,2021-06-01T20:41:03Z,2021-06-01T20:41:12Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"@benbovy I also agree that a data structure that encapsulates a scale into a nice API, where you set the scale currently desired, and the same Xarray Dataset/DataArray API is available, and that scale can optionally be lazily be loaded. Maybe an Index as proposed could be a good API, but I do not have a good enough understanding of how the interface is used in general. What would be other examples like `ImagePyramidIndex`, outside of the multi-scale context? Should something like `Scale` be used instead? Regarding dynamic multi-scale, etc., one use case of interest is where you are interactively processing a larger-then memory dataset, and want to visualize the result over a limited domain on an intermediate scale.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,902009258