Hi Angelique, (Sorry for the delay in response -- it's been a busy last 2 weeks submitting a grant proposal.) I don't have any specific advice other than yes, I think you'll need to modify Dots.py itself to do what you want. -Andrew Angelique Paulk wrote: > Hello, all, > > I have what is probably a silly question with regard to the 'dots.py' > program. We are presenting the dots program on the screen with the > dots all moving in one direction set at a specific dot lifespan (a > variable in the dots.py program named dot_lifespan_sec, such as 750 > ms). The difficulty right now is that we would like to have all the > dots set at one lifespan, but with the timing of the appearance of > each dot randomized, so that when the dots appear and disappear, they > are not appearing and disappearing in synchrony (as they do now) but > are randomized relative to each other. Is there some way to modify > this in the program? The randomly moving dots already do this, but > when the dots are moving coherently, they all disappear in synchrony. > Would we need to modify the Dots.py program? > > Thank you for any and all help! > Angelique Paulk > ====================================== > The Vision Egg mailing list > Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg > Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html -- Dr. Andrew D. Straw California Institute of Technology http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/ ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html