List of strategies

VoxelIntersection

This strategy voxelizes morphologies into collections of cubes, thereby reducing the spatial specificity of the provided traced morphologies by grouping multiple compartments into larger cubic voxels. Intersections are found not between the seperate compartments but between the voxels and random compartments of matching voxels are connected to eachother. This means that the connections that are made are less specific to the exact morphology and can be very useful when only 1 or a few morphologies are available to represent each cell type.

• affinity: A fraction between 1 and 0 which indicates the tendency of cells to form connections with other cells with whom their voxels intersect. This can be used to downregulate the amount of cells that any cell connects with.

• contacts: A number or distribution determining the amount of synaptic contacts one cell will form on another after they have selected eachother as connection partners.

Note

The affinity only affects the number of cells that are contacted, not the number of synaptic contacts formed with each cell.