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************		Welcome to VirtualRetina	*****************
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		Spiking, large-scale retina simulation software.

			Author : Adrien Wohrer
			Institution : ODYSSEE, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
			Contact : Adrien.Wohrer@sophia.inria.fr
			Project started december 2004.


This is the retina package. It contains VirtualRetina/, as well as other libraries
required by the software, that you may want to install.

Read
VirtualRetina/tutorial.pdf
for intructions.


Under Linux, the shell ' download_build_all.sh ' is provided to

1) Download software CMake and install it in External_Libraries/CMake

2) Download external libraries MvaSpike, libxml++ and CImg. Install them, plus home-made library xmlParameters++, in local directory
VirtualRetina/local/lib
(and corresponding includes in VirtualRetina/local/include)

3) Compile VirtualRetina.
