The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies

Программное обеспечение VideoToolbox для зрительной психофизики: преобразование чисел в фильмы
Denis G. Pelli
1997-01-01

VideoToolboxcomputer-display interfacedisplay calibrationvisual psychophysicsvisual stimulus generation
The VideoToolbox is a free collection of two hundred C subroutines for Macintosh computers that calibrates and controls the computer-display interface to create accurately specified visual stimuli. High-level platform-independent languages like MATLAB are best for creating the numbers that describe the desired images. Low-level, computer-specific VideoToolbox routines control the hardware that transforms those numbers into a movie. Transcending the particular computer and language, we discuss the nature of the computer-display interface, and how to calibrate and control it.
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MATLAB and other high-level, platform-independent languages generate image specifications, while VideoToolbox handles low-level, hardware-specific display control.
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The paper explains the computer–display interface and methods for calibrating and controlling it across different computational environments.
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The software enables accurately specified visual stimuli by converting numerically described images into controlled visual movies.
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VideoToolbox provides approximately 200 free C subroutines for Macintosh computers to calibrate and control the computer–display interface.

the VideoToolbox-controlled computer-display interface for creating visual stimuli

calibration and hardware control for accurately transforming numerical image specifications into movies

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