bessel#

bessel stimulus example

You can find an interactive version of this example here

stimupy.components.waves.bessel(visual_size=None, ppd=None, shape=None, frequency=None, order=0, intensities=(1.0, 0.0), origin='mean')#

Draw a Bessel stimulus, i.e. draw circular rings following an nth order Bessel function of a given frequency.

Parameters:
  • visual_size (Sequence[Number, Number], Number, or None (default)) – visual size [height, width] of image, in degrees

  • ppd (Sequence[Number, Number], Number, or None (default)) – pixels per degree [vertical, horizontal]

  • shape (Sequence[Number, Number], Number, or None (default)) – shape [height, width] of image, in pixels

  • frequency (Number, or None (default)) – spatial frequency of circular grating, in cycles per degree

  • order (int) – n-th order Bessel function

  • intensities ((float, float)) – intensity values of rings, first value indicating center intensity

  • origin ("corner", "mean" or "center") – if “corner”: set origin to upper left corner if “mean”: set origin to hypothetical image center (default) if “center”: set origin to real center (closest existing value to mean)

Returns:

dict with the stimulus (key: “img”), empty mask (key: “ring_mask”), and additional keys containing stimulus parameters

Return type:

dict[str, Any]