Regions

A volume in 3D space which can be filled with cells. Regions defined at the tab Regions can be also used for specifying bounding regions for selecting cells, for example:

Regions can also be used for:

In the current version of neuroConstruct, these can be

  1. Rectangular boxes (i.e. cuboids): where the width, height and depth are specified, along with the location of one of the lower corners
  2. Spheres: the centre point and the radius are specified
  3. Cylinders: the centre points of the base and top are specified, as is the radius
  4. Cones: the centre points of the base and apex are specified, as is the base radius

neuroConstruct can be extended (at the source code level) to include more complex 3D Regions, e.g. folium like constructs, etc. by extending the Java class Region.