static <A> PatchworkImage<A> patchworkBufferedImagesHorizontally(LPair<BufferedImage, A> imagesAndValues, O... _) {
  if (empty(imagesAndValues)) null;
  optPar int spacing = imageMergeSpacing();
  var images = pairsA(imagesAndValues);
  int w = intSum(mapMethod getWidth(images))+(l(images)-1)*spacing;
  int h = intMax(mapMethod getHeight(images));
  PatchworkImage<A> out = new(w, h);
  int x = 0;
  for (imageAndValue : imagesAndValues) {
    BufferedImage img = imageAndValue.a;
    int y = (h-img.getHeight())/2;
    out.addPatch(img, x, y, imageAndValue.b);
    x += img.getWidth() + spacing;
  }
  ret out;
}

Began life as a copy of #1024673