The following attempt to draw a square with a thick line
from psychopy import visual, event
win = visual.Window()
visual.Rect(win, size=0.2, lineWidth=20).draw() # the critical line! The ShapeStim
win.flip()
event.waitKeys() # To keep it on the screen
produces this shape:
How do I make it a proper square with proper corners? This problem applies to all ShapeStims, e.g. Polygon.
How such a thing is drawn depends on the graphics card driver. PsychoPy merely tells the OpenGL drivers to draw the lines. For your needs I would construct a bitmaped image stim (or grating stim) that had exactly the shape I wanted. You could do that using a numpy array if it helped to keep everything in your script
It would be a hack, but In a previous post, Michael suggested drawing a big white square with a smaller grey one inside.