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A new system capable of generating static and dynamic random-element stereograms is designed and implemented. The stereogram is composed of a rectangle that can be varied in size, element density, orientation, and horizontal and vertical disparties, and can be swept at several velocities. The system is based on an inexpensive personal computer (Amiga 500), designed to work as a slave system under the control of a host computer (e.g. any personal computer). A colour monitor or two black and white monitors are suitable display devices to view the stereograms. This system is used to perform psycophysical experiments in humans and neurophysiological experiments in behaving monkeys, with the purpose of studying depth perception and binocular vision.
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Gonzalez, F., Krause, F. Generation of dynamic random-element stereograms in real time with a system based on a personal computer. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 32, 373–376 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02524687
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