This is one aspect of a model designed to generate the rules needed to solve a popular test of intelligence, Raven's Progressive Matrices. This component generates a particular type of rule, which we call "sequences". These are patterns defined by an iterative transformation (e.g., the sequence 9, 10, 11 is defined by the iterative transformation +1). Given Raven's matrices represented in a mathematical, vector-based form, this component can then generate the sequence transformations that define those matrices and use them to find an answer to the problem.

1. Start the Nengo 1.4 simulation environment.
2. Select File->Open, and open the runme.py file.
3. When the model appears, right click on it and select "Run SequenceSolver"

It will take some time for the model to be built and run. To view the results, select View->Toggle Data Viewer (if the data viewer doesn't open automatically). The data viewer will display recordings from various parts of the model as it ran. The most interesting outputs are calcT:T, which contains the rule generated by the model, and testSimilarity:result, which displays the model's confidence in the eight possible answers given for the matrix (the correct answer is #8). To view the data, right click on the field in the data viewer and select "Plot w/ options", entering a value around 0.05.

The matrix used as input to the model is given in the file sequencematrix_1.txt. You can try making your own matrices (the vocabulary is described in the file vocabulary.py in the misc folder of the repository) to see how the model does. Just change the section of the runme.py file that refers to sequencematrix_1.txt to the name of the file you created and repeat steps 3-4 above.