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Benjamin Weyers edited this page Feb 5, 2016 · 12 revisions

VIOLA User Manual

This a manual guiding you through VIOLA - a tool to visualize activity in multiple 2D layers in an interactive and efficient way. It gives an insight into spatially resolved time series such as simulation results of neural networks with 2D geometry. VIOLA is composed of various types of visualization components, which offer different perspectives on the analysed data.

Starting VIOLA

VIOLA is a web-based visualization tool, which is based solely on JavaScript and HTML 5 technologies. After checking out the code from GitHub, VIOLA can started by open the index.html in a WebBrowser. Your find the index.html in the top level folder of VIOLA. Google Chrome is the preferred browser for running VIOLA. Testing and adapting of VIOLA to other browsers is subject to future work. Doing so will open VIOLA's setup panel.

Quick Guide

  1. Clone VIOLA from GitHub
  2. Open the index.html file in the top level folder in a web browser, preferably Google Chrome
  3. The setup panel will show up

Configuration of VIOLA - The setup panel

Setup Panel

The setup panel offers input fields for the specification of meta information regarding the data to be analyzed. The panel separated into four major segments.

  1. Configuration File Selection

  2. Simulation - Specification of metadata

  3. LFP - Specification of metadata for LFP data

  4. Display - Configuration options for the visual representation

Quick Guide

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VIOLA's visualization modules

VIOLA offers various views on layer activity data. This section presents the various visualizations and their configuration options step by step.

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