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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Another
one to consider, if you are not looking for something extreme, is Microsoft
Expression Design – I tend to use it to patch up my plots and graphs these
days, or, at least, until the 60 days free license runs out! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>PS:
I like MS Paint, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#16355A'>Michiel Spapé<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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color:#16355A'>Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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color:#16355A'>Perception & Action group<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#16355A'>University of Nottingham<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> e-prime@googlegroups.com
[mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Erickson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 January 2010 15:34<br>
<b>To:</b> e-prime<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Graphic Software for stimulus design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tobi <<a
href="mailto:tobias.fw@gmail.com">tobias.fw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>our group is currently planning to buy some software
licenses, among<br>
them software for stimulus design, i.e. mostly simple geometric<br>
shapes. I was wondering what other people might use for such purposes.<br>
Do you have a favourite software solution you might recommend?<o:p></o:p></p>
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For simple geometric shapes, GIMP & Photoshop seem ill suited. You
probably want something that is vector-based (until you export bitmaps for
E-Prime). I use xfig on Linux, but it looks like winfig might do a good
job under MS Windows.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.schmidt-web-berlin.de/winfig/">http://www.schmidt-web-berlin.de/winfig/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>also, xfig itself can be installed on Windows under cygwin.<br>
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Another consideration is using a programming language to generate the shapes,
but if they're simple enough to do that, you may as well use E-Basic. In
the past, however, we have used R and MATLAB to generate stimuli such as <a
href="https://sfari.org/image/image_gallery?img_id=50031&t=1238002532271">Gabor
patches</a> and <a
href="http://www.rbej.com/content/figures/1477-7827-6-33-9-l.jpg">Fourier
descriptors</a>.<br>
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Only in the case of MATLAB would you need to pay for a license.<br>
<br>
Michael<o:p></o:p></p>
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