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The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies
Abstract
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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Metadata
- Authors
- Pelli, D. G.
- Venue
- Spatial Vision
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1997
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 437-442
- ISSN
- 0169-1015 (ISSN-L)
- 1568-5683
- OpenAlex
- W2017108196
- Cited by
- 11,098
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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