Getting
from that brilliant insight to the crucial experiment can be the hardest
part of any research project. The choices for visual stimulus generation
can be bewildering, but false starts waste your time and money.
Computer
graphics seem the obvious solution, but it's not always that simple.
Most systems
are really designed for games: they are difficult
for novices to program and unsupported by the manufacturer. Often
their dynamic range is limited, with inadequate contrast
and colour
control for experimental applications,
and timing is unpredictable.
You need the ViSaGe advantage:
Real-time driver for
Windows guarantees frame-synchronous presentations even at 100Hz+ frame
rates
14bit colour and luminance
control with integrated support for gamma correction and colour
calibration
Dedicated PCI Express
framestore to buffer sequences of precalculated images
Integrated digital I/O
interface for controlling third-party equipment like electrophysiological
amplifiers
Toolbox for MATLAB
means experimental scripts are easy to generate; no Windows programming
in C is required for most applications!