What?
MazeSuite allows you to easily create and visualize 3D environments. It is a complete set of tools that enables researchers to perform motor control, spatial and navigational behavior experiments within interactive and extendable 3D virtual environments. Maze Suite can be used to design and visualize 3D environments, as well as track subjects’ behavioral performance.
How?
MazeSuite consists of three main applications; an editing program to create and alter maze environments (MazeMaker), a visualization/rendering module (MazeWalker), and finally an analysis/mapping tool (MazeViewer). Maze Suite, with all 3 applications, is a complete toolset to easily and rapidly deploy interactive 3D environments. See below for screenshots and information about each application.
Next?
- Watch the quick start guide video to create a maze (~6 minutes)
- Read the manual to learn more
- Register at the forum to read/ask/share/learn (free to register)
- MazeMaker is the editor application of MazeSuite that can create and edit plain 3D environments.
- MazeMaker is intended to be a simple graphical user interface to design 3D mazes visually.
- MazeMaker application can be used to create new mazes, add/remove or edit various types of objects to the environment.
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- MazeWalker is the presentation software and 3D engine that renders the maze.
- Logs the behavior of the subject within the environment with time stamps,
- Replays log files in video mode
- Send synchronization signals through RS232 serial port to external applications.
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- MazeAnalyzer is the post-analysis tool of MazeSuite.
- Visualize log files created by MazeWalker.
- Enables researchers to analyze the behavior (e.g., subjects path, time to completion of the maze, number of errors) of the subject in the maze. Log files contain information about the path that a subject traveled as well as subject's view vector.
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