Lagging gabor drifting in a multi apertures stimulus

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Hello everyone,
I am programming a multigabor aperture stimulus just as shown in the figure below.
gabor
I tried to put hundreds of Gabor and, as I could expect, the stimulus is lagging. gabors are slowing down a lot.
To let you know how I coded it, you may find my code, I just coded the number of gabors I wanted.

import psychopy
from psychopy import visual, core, event  # import some libraries from PsychoPy
from random import randrange, choice, shuffle
from math import cos, radians, fabs


#Paramters





list_oriG = []
list_oriR = []
list_ori = [] 



n = 200 # Numbers of gabors

N = int(n*0) #Noise
S = int(n*1) # Signal


v = 0

for v in range(n):
    v = 30
    list_ori.append(v)



o = 0

for o in range(N):
    o = randrange(0,360)
    list_oriR.append(o)


for g in range(S):
    g = -30
    list_oriG.append(g)


list_oritot = list_oriG + list_oriR

shuffle(list_oritot)

list_rand = []

s = 0
a = 0


for a in range(n):
    #s = cos(radians(list_oritot[0]) - radians(list_ori[a]))
    s = 1
    list_rand.append(s)



#create a window
mywin = visual.Window([1000,1000], monitor="testMonitor", units="deg")


#create some stimuli

fixation = visual.TextStim(win = mywin, text = "N", pos = (0.0,0.0), color=(1.0,0.0,0.0),colorSpace='rgb') 

grating0= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-15], sf = 1.5)
grating1= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-14], sf = 1.5)
grating2= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-13], sf = 1.5)
grating3= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-12], sf = 1.5)
grating4= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-11], sf = 1.5)
grating5= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-10], sf = 1.5)
grating6= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-9], sf = 1.5)
grating7= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-8], sf = 1.5)
grating8= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-7], sf = 1.5)
grating9= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-6], sf = 1.5)
grating10= visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos =[-15,-5], sf = 1.5)
#..... Till grating200

grating0.setOri(list_ori[0])
grating1.setOri(list_ori[1])
grating2.setOri(list_ori[2])
grating3.setOri(list_ori[3])
grating4.setOri(list_ori[4])
grating5.setOri(list_ori[5])
grating6.setOri(list_ori[6])
grating7.setOri(list_ori[7])
grating8.setOri(list_ori[8])
grating9.setOri(list_ori[9])
grating10.setOri(list_ori[10])
#until grating200

while(1):
    
#phase
    grating0.setPhase(list_rand[0]*0.01, '+')
    grating1.setPhase(list_rand[1]*0.01, '+')
    grating2.setPhase(list_rand[2]*0.01, '+')
    grating3.setPhase(list_rand[3]*0.01, '+')
    grating4.setPhase(list_rand[4]*0.01, '+')
    grating5.setPhase(list_rand[5]*0.01, '+')
    grating6.setPhase(list_rand[6]*0.01, '+')
    grating7.setPhase(list_rand[7]*0.01, '+')
    grating8.setPhase(list_rand[8]*0.01, '+')
    grating9.setPhase(list_rand[9]*0.01, '+')
    grating10.setPhase(list_rand[10]*0.01, '+')
    grating11.setPhase(list_rand[11]*0.01, '+')
    grating12.setPhase(list_rand[12]*0.01, '+')
    grating13.setPhase(list_rand[13]*0.01, '+')
    grating14.setPhase(list_rand[14]*0.01, '+')
    grating15.setPhase(list_rand[15]*0.01, '+')
    #until grating200

    fixation.draw()
    
    
    grating0.draw()
    grating1.draw()
    grating2.draw()
    grating3.draw()
    grating4.draw()
    grating5.draw()
    grating6.draw()
    grating7.draw()
    grating8.draw()
    grating9.draw()
    grating10.draw()
    grating11.draw()
    grating12.draw()
    grating13.draw()
    grating14.draw()
    grating15.draw()
    grating16.draw()
    grating17.draw()
    grating18.draw()
    grating19.draw()
    grating20.draw()
    grating21.draw()
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    mywin.flip()
    
    if len(event.getKeys()) > 0:
        break
    event.clearEvents()
    
mywin.close()

Does anyone have already faced this issue?

Thanks a lot for your help !

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OK perhaps some ways you could improve efficiency here - although it might still be lagging because it is alot to draw on every frame.

nGratings = 200
positions = []#populate this with your list of positions or provide a range of values to work through
gratingList = []

for i, position in enumerate(positions):
    thisGrating = visual.GratingStim(win=mywin, mask = "gauss", size = 1, pos = position, sf = 1.5)
    gratingList.append(thisGrating)

#when it comes to drawing
for grating in gratingList:
    grating.draw()

Alternatively you might want to consider checking out elementArrayStim this post might also be helpful? ElementArrayStim - updating and passing lists of parameters / stimuli? becca