Graphic Software for stimulus design

[Michiel Spape]

Hi,

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! 

 

Cheers,

Mich

 

PS: I like MS Paint, too.

 

 

Michiel Spapé

Research Fellow

Perception & Action group

University of Nottingham

School of Psychology

 

From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Erickson
Sent: 11 January 2010 15:34
To: e-prime
Subject: Re: Graphic Software for stimulus design

 

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tobi <tobias.fw at gmail.com> wrote:

our group is currently planning to buy some software licenses, among
them software for stimulus design, i.e. mostly simple geometric
shapes. I was wondering what other people might use for such purposes.
Do you have a favourite software solution you might recommend?


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.

http://www.schmidt-web-berlin.de/winfig/

also, xfig itself can be installed on Windows under cygwin.

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 Gabor patches <https://sfari.org/image/image_gallery?img_id=50031&t=1238002532271>  and Fourier descriptors <http://www.rbej.com/content/figures/1477-7827-6-33-9-l.jpg> .

Only in the case of MATLAB would you need to pay for a license.

Michael

 

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