stimupy

A pure-Python package for creating new and existing visual stimuli commonly used in the study of contrast, brightness, lightness, and other aspects of visual perception.

• generate (novel) visual stimuli in a reproducible, flexible, and easy way

• recreate exact stimuli as they have been used in prior vision research

• explore large parameter spaces to reveal relations between formerly unconnected stimuli

• provide classic stimulus sets (e.g. ModelFest), exactly as described in the original manuscripts (including experimental data)

• build new stimulus sets or benchmarks (e.g. for testing computational models), and easily add them to stimupy

• support vision science by providing a large, openly-available and flexible battery of relevant stimulus functions

• unify and automate stimulus creation

• be FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

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Get started

Install stimupy and follow an introductory tutorial

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Learn more

Learn more about design decisions and particular conventions and topics within stimupy

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Reference

Look up functions and their specific parameters, including through interactive demos

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Get in touch, or contribute

Ask a question, report a bug, request a feature, or contribute.

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If you use stimupy for your scientific work, please cite the paper as:

Schmittwilken, L., Maertens, M., & Vincent, J. (2023). stimupy: A Python package for creating stimuli in vision science. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(86), 5321. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05321

Here is a BibTeX entry for this reference:

@article{Schmittwilken2023,
    doi = {10.21105/joss.05321},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05321},
    year = {2023},
    publisher = {The Open Journal},
    volume = {8},
    number = {86},
    pages = {5321},
    author = {Lynn Schmittwilken and Marianne Maertens and Joris Vincent},
    title = {stimupy: A Python package for creating stimuli in vision science},
    journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}