Notes on using the Neurospaces Studio ------------------------------------- *Provided by Hugo Cornelis* At the gsejj 'genesis prompt', type 'explore' to start the neurospaces studio. The most useful menus that will appear are:: 1. The Information Extractor button: After clicking the 'Render' button without adjusting the settings, this button renders a conceptual diagram of the network showing the populations and projections. This needs dependencies of GraphViz, perl-GraphViz and gv. 2. The Explorer button: allows one to browse the model in its usual way. In each opened window, the left most panel shows model components that can be explored by double clicking them. If SDL is installed, the scene can be rendered in 3D (although the 3D currently does not integrate well with the gshell). 3. The Connection Matrix button: allows to inspect the connection matrix. First select one or more projections in the list of four (multi-selection by holding down the shift key). The window with spiking related elements holds all spike generating elements in the selected projections on the left, and the spike receiving elements on the right. Select a spike generating element, and the window with the result set will show the attached elements (it does not show important parameters such as weight and delay). 4. The other buttons are different ways to explore the ndf files and the algorithms that have been loaded by the script. 5. Use the 'Quit' menu button to close all the windows and return control to the command line shell.