Discus Web works! (and is easier to use...)

The Web version of Discus is finally working (on most browsers except from Internet Explorer - thanks to Kieran Loft of Exeter for pointing this out). The analysis has been integrated, so that you can now download a PDF printout immediately after the experiment is done. This should now become the preferred way to do the experiment if your computer is connected to the internet. If you want to use Discus offline please download the Windows / Mac versions (*.enc files are saved on the desktop; use the File Uploader to analyse).

Credit goes to Andrey Kulakevich of Halifax, Nova Scotia (and to me for some late nights finding the bug in his elegant code). I have learned some some javascript along the way, and so it has all been worthwhile. We hope you like this version.

Discus App now available for OSX (Mac)

Thanks to the excellent Wine software, Discus can finally be run on a Mac. Please download the zip file (70 MB) from the link below, double-click to de-compress, and install the App. You may need to press the "command" button to bypass security. Please let us know how you are getting on with this version...

Discus at IMAGE '14 in Dresden

During the 2014 IMAGE meeting in Dresden, I presented some intriguing findings from the research with Discus. Here on my scribd site are a couple of slides from the talk...

Feature issue Optic Nerve

The Nature journal Eye, Volume 18, Issue 11 (November 2004) had a superb feature issue on the optic nerve (highly recommended). In particular, I enjoyed the article by Reeves and Taylor which gives a wonderful account on the history of ideas on the optic nerve. 

Diskuss (auf Deutsch)

Hier ist ein Link zu einem kürzlich erschienenen Artikel von Christian Mardin (herzlichen Dank!), der die wichtigsten Zeichen glaukomatöser Papillenschäden beleuchtet. Nur zum persönlichen Gebrauch!

optic-disc.org

This site, with contributions by Prof Dr George Spaeth of Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia, also has some freely available and superbly useful things ad papilla. Thank you, creators!

How?

Welcome to Discus. Here are the instructions.

The Discus software will save a *.enc file on your Windows desktop. Please upload this file here (red arrow) Once you've done this, our server will generate a PDF file within a few seconds, and you can download this PDF and print it for your kitchen wall. Or you can email it to me and tell you what you liked or didn't like about what we are doing.

Many thanks!