[Eeglablist] how to modify and then save topograph maps?

[Markus Gschwind]

Dear Makoto,

Thanks for the answer.

If I will have to go over the manual change of xyz could you give me some
hint of how to do it?

Thanks so much!
Markus

2014-11-15 19:33 GMT+01:00 Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at ucsd.edu>:

> Dear Markus,
>
> I don't think there is a supported graphical editor that takes care of it.
> You can manually change the xyz (or other coordinate parameter) values, but
> it would not be that convenient.
>
> Makoto
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Markus Gschwind <
> markus.gschwind at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Steven,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your detailed answer. But I fear I still was not
>> clear.
>>
>> I do not talk about display. I want do modify the topography itself and
>> SAVE the modified topography in a new one. I want to create artificial
>> topographies out of existing ones.
>>
>> So I need to use the XYZ information from EEG.chanloc like in topoplot in
>> order to know which electrode is right and which left, but I need to
>> separate it from the topography (which is a simple vector with 204 numbers
>> according to the 204 electrodes). I would like to modify the values in the
>> topography in such a way that it appears as a left-right-flipped version,
>> or any other operation.
>>
>> So my question is if there is a tool which allows to spatially modify and
>> SAVE the modified topography, not to modify the display!
>>
>> Thank you again!
>> Best, Markus
>>
>> 2014-11-13 3:50 GMT+01:00 Stephen Politzer-Ahles <spa268 at nyu.edu>:
>>
>>> Hello Markus,
>>>
>>> Regarding your second question: you can type 'help topoplot' to see
>>> documentation for the topoplot() function (the same goes for any other
>>> function). In this case, the 'nosedir' parameter allows you to have the
>>>  nose face in other directions. You can also rotate it an arbitrary amount
>>> by using the view() command (there's an example in the help documentation)
>>> or you can do this manually in the Matlab figure by clicking the "Rotate 3D
>>> button", which looks like a cube. When I tried this it seems like I can
>>> only rotate around the z-axis; rotating other ways makes the different
>>> parts of the plot come apart.
>>>
>>> Regarding question (1), if you mean to flip the topography so the nose
>>> is still at the top but left means right and right means left, I'm not sure
>>> if there's a built-in way to do that. I was able to do it using this hack,
>>> but maybe someone else knows a better way:
>>> 1. Manually rotate the figure around the y-axis; you'll see that the
>>> head circle, electrode markers, contour lines, etc., all disappear (they
>>> are being hidden behind the topography itself, which has a lower z-value
>>> than the rest).
>>> 2. Get the handles of all the separate parts of the figure using
>>> list=get(gca,'children').
>>> 3. In  my case, the 8th handle (list(8)) was the one for the topoplot
>>> itself. I'm not sure if this is always the case, or if your figures might
>>> come out different. So anyway, I just set the ZData for this  handle to a
>>> very high number, which put it "behind" the other parts of the figure
>>> (contour lines etc.) and made them appear again:  set(list(8),'ZData',
>>> 5+zeros(size(get(list(8),'ZData'))) ). This made the other parts of the
>>> plot visible again.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Politzer-Ahles
>>> New York University, Abu Dhabi
>>> Neuroscience of Language Lab
>>> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politzer-ahles/
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Markus Gschwind <
>>> markus.gschwind at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Could anyone point me to a way how to modify a given topography (vector
>>>> with # elements corresponding to EEG.chanloc)
>>>>
>>>> 1) so as to flip the topography left-right (I understood it is the y
>>>> axis?)
>>>>
>>>> 2) rotate around a given angle and axis?
>>>>
>>>> How can I perform these modifications and the SAVE the new topo-vector
>>>> in a file?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Markus
>>>>
>>>>
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> --
> Makoto Miyakoshi
> Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
> Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
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