updated the generateSimulatedSpike to appropriately scale the waveforms....

updated the generateSimulatedSpike to appropriately scale the waveforms. Instead of simply shifting the entire waveform the baseline is leftalone and the peak is scaled. Additionally the spikes are now distributed exponentially in amplitude space rather than uniformly

Source/Processors/Visualization/SpikeObject.cpp

@@ -150,15 +150,13 @@ void generateSimulatedSpike(SpikeObject *s, uint64_t timestamp, int noise)
     };
 
 
-  //   uint16_t sineSpikeWave[32] = 
-  //   {	78, 	90, 	101, 	111,	120,	126,	129,	130,
-		// 129,	126,	120,	111,	101,	90,		78,		65,
-		// 52,		40,		29,		19,		11,		5,		2,		1,
-		// 2,		5,		11,		19,		29,		40,		52,		65};
+    // We don't want to shift the waveform but scale it, and we don't want to scale
+    // the baseline, just the peak of the waveform
+    float scale[32] = 
+    {	1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 1.7, 1.5,
+    	1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0};
 
-    // uint16_t trace[32] = {0};
-
-    uint16_t gain = 5;
+    uint16_t gain = 1;
 
     s->timestamp = timestamp;
     s->source = 0;
@@ -172,9 +170,9 @@ void generateSimulatedSpike(SpikeObject *s, uint64_t timestamp, int noise)
     for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
     {
         s->gain[i] = gain;
-        s->threshold[i] = 8000;
-        double waveScaling = (double)(rand()%14 + 1) / 10.00 ; // Scale the wave between 50% and 150%
-
+        s->threshold[i] = 4000;
+        double scaleExponent =  (double)(rand()%18 + 2) / 10.0f; // Scale the wave between 50% and 150%
+        
 		for (int j=0; j<32; j++){
 			
 			int n = 0;
@@ -182,7 +180,7 @@ void generateSimulatedSpike(SpikeObject *s, uint64_t timestamp, int noise)
 				n = rand() % noise - noise/2;
 			}
 
-            s->data[idx] = (trace[waveType][j] + n) * gain * waveScaling + shift;
+            s->data[idx] = (trace[waveType][j] + n) * gain * pow(scale[j],scaleExponent) + shift;
             idx = idx+1;
         }
     }

Source/Processors/Visualization/SpikeObject.h

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #define SPIKEOBJECT_H_
 
 #include <stdint.h>
+#include <math.h>
 
 #define MAX_NUMBER_OF_SPIKE_CHANNELS 4
 #define MAX_NUMBER_OF_SPIKE_CHANNEL_SAMPLES 256