User Manual

The Topographica user manual gives an overview of Topographica’s structure and explains importaing concepts and features from a user perspective. This information complements the complete and detailed component-level information in the reference manual, as well as the step-by-step explanations in the tutorials.

Please note that the user manual is not a complete reference to all available functionality, so that we can focus on the main ideas. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered in the user manual, please contact us or contribute an initial sketch of that section.

• Introduction
• Overview of Topographica design and features
• Representing time in Topographica
• ImaGen spatial coordinate systems
• Representing space in Topographica (coordinate systems)
• Starting Topographica scripts interactively
• The Topographica command line and script language
• Running Topographica simulations in batch mode
• Controlling simulation parameters
• Generating patterns
• Plotting and visualization
• Graphical Model Editor
• Adding noise to Topographica
• Interfacing to external simulators
• Publishing Topographica results
• Using multiple cores with Topographica