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kev_dent	kev_dent posted 5 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 153	Dear Inquisit, I am setting up a simple experiment that presents a set of moving object. I have found the "animation" parameter to be quite convenient for this purpose. I set a start point, a mid point, and then return to the start, and loop. I am wondering how the software interprets this command? How often is the position of the stimulus updated? Is this on a frame by frame basis? So far the motion looks OK but it is not completely smooth. What is the best strategy to ensure seamless motion? Will I get a better outcome if I specify every point along the motion path. Thanks for your help. Best Kevin
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Dave	Dave posted 5 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 109K	+x kev_dent - 11/19/2020 Dear Inquisit, I am setting up a simple experiment that presents a set of moving object. I have found the "animation" parameter to be quite convenient for this purpose. I set a start point, a mid point, and then return to the start, and loop. I am wondering how the software interprets this command? How often is the position of the stimulus updated? Is this on a frame by frame basis? So far the motion looks OK but it is not completely smooth. What is the best strategy to ensure seamless motion? Will I get a better outcome if I specify every point along the motion path. Thanks for your help. Best Kevin Yeah, essentially Inquisit translates the animation timing parameters you give it into stimulus frames and does the best it can to hit those timings given the refresh rate of the system it finds itself running on. As with /stimulustimes, the higher your display's refresh rate, the closer to the specified timings Inquisit can get and the smoother the animation will look.
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kev_dent	kev_dent posted 5 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 153	Dave- thanks Is it possible to get output from the script which shows where each object was actually positioned on each frame in order to check and verify that the animation is behaving as intended. Also is it possible to update the position of each of a set of stimuli during a trial in order to code an animation. I have in mind updating the position of a stimulus on each frame. As I understand it the only way to do this would be to create individual stimuli each with a different position ahead of time, one stimulus per frame and then reference each of these stimuli in a trial. I wonder if there is any way to dynamically update the properties of a stimulus without creating a new instance, so that it could change during a single trial? Best Kevin Edited 5 Years Ago by Dave
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Dave	Dave posted 5 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 109K	+x kev_dent - 11/19/2020 Dave- thanks Is it possible to get output from the script which shows where each object was actually positioned on each frame in order to check and verify that the animation is behaving as intended. Also is it possible to update the position of each of a set of stimuli during a trial in order to code an animation. I have in mind updating the position of a stimulus on each frame. As I understand it the only way to do this would be to create individual stimuli each with a different position ahead of time, one stimulus per frame and then reference each of these stimuli in a trial. I wonder if there is any way to dynamically update the properties of a stimulus without creating a new instance, so that it could change during a single trial? Best Kevin > Is it possible to get output from the script which shows where each object was actually positioned on each frame in order to check and verify that the animation is behaving as intended. > I wonder if there is any way to dynamically update the properties of a stimulus without creating a new instance, so that it could change during a single trial? The answer to both questions is no, I'm afraid.
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