fly_dsi — FLYVISION tuning op

Data kinds: signaltable

Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.fly_dsi(responses, angles_deg) (to call the implementation directly, import flyvision; flyvision.fly_dsi(responses, angles_deg); from the registry, opsflyvision.get("fly_dsi"))

Usage

Direction-selectivity index and preferred direction from tuning responses.

A vector sum on the circle::

DSI = |sum_k r_k exp(i theta_k)| / (sum_k r_k + 1e-9)

preferred = angle(sum_k r_k exp(i theta_k))

where `r_k >= 0` is the response to a stimulus moving at angle

`theta_k = angles_deg[k]` (negatives clipped to 0).

responses: a 1-D array of responses, one per direction.

angles_deg: the stimulus directions in degrees, same length.

Returns a dict `{"dsi": float, "pref_deg": float} with pref_deg` in

`[-180, 180]`.

Ground truth: a response at a single direction gives `dsi == 1`; an isotropic

response over directions evenly spanning the circle gives `dsi == 0` (pinned

in the tests).

Raises `ValueError`: a non-1-D / empty / non-finite *responses* or

*angles_deg*, mismatched lengths, an array over :data:MAX_SIGNAL_POINTS, and

an all-zero *responses* (no direction tuning to report).

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

poc_fly_visionpy -3.11 examples/poc_fly_vision.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept table as input)

fly_hex_resample · fly_hs_readout

Same category (tuning)


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