On-line analysis of rapid motion with a microcomputer.
A software package is described, which uses an Apple IIe computer with a digitizing board (Digisector 65) for analysing rapid motions of appendages of small insects from video images. Every 20 ms the program simultaneously analyses the position of two moving appendages after a background correction and the externally applied trigger stimulus. The data may be plotted in high-resolution plots with a matrix printer and evaluated with statistical methods.
D000818:Animals; D003201:Computers; D005260:Female; D006135:Gryllidae / Q000502:physiology*; D008838:Microcomputers; D009068:Movement; D009987:Orthoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software