This section of the Visual Cortex:
Can 
be recreated in code on VCV Rack? Load a video, then output luma / RGB where each of the four outputs are a 0-1V signal? My mental model of what that bit of Cortex is doing is to “decode” the video signal into its parts, then output each part as a separate simple wave, with sync on its own channel as well. Analog video signals are luma - color - sync, just all encoded cleverly in a analog signal (Wikipedia is awesome).
I’m positive I’m oversimplifying something or maybe missing some big chunk of concept…but…maybe this is possible in code? Vizzie / Max is doing something or other when they turn video into Max signals…so…seems like something VCV could do, with the bonus of outputting it into modular via ES-8/9. That would be neat.