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File Exchange Select
Ned Gulley, one of my good friends at The MathWorks and a member of the MATLAB Central Team, asked me to send this...
20 years ago
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Three dimensional polar plots
This blog has been going on for a few years now, and you may have noticed that the name has recently changed. Scott is...
20 years ago
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Finite element analysis of elastic bodies
Ofek wrote me the other day saying I should check out his SpringLab for modeling elastic bodies in “real time” in MATLAB. It...
20 years ago
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Frame by frame movies
It seems that whenever I need something, I go to MATLAB Central and someone has already coded it up for me. That is what...
20 years ago
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Monotonically changing vectors
Frequent readers of this blog, will know that I am a big fan of simple things done well. I like isMonotonic because it does...
20 years ago
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You could be a star!
Thanks to John D'Errico for stepping in as a guest picker again. ... Playtune - its not really for the musically...
20 years ago
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Remove wildpoints graphically
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. I will admit it, as an...
20 years ago
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Plotting multiple Y scales
Often times, people want to plot two vectors of data with the same x-axis, but the vectors are at wildly different values on...
20 years ago
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Distributed computing tool
What is better than MATLAB running on your computer? How about MATLAB running on a whole mess of computers at once making...
20 years ago
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Uniform random samples with fixed sum
Thanks again to guest-picker-in-residence John D’Errico … Yes, I’ll admit that I’m one of those people who enjoys a pretty...
20 years ago
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Finding the right threshold value
The Image Processing Toolbox, which was introduced over ten years ago, is one of the most popular of The MathWorks’...
20 years ago
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Linearly space matrix
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. This week’s guest pick of the week...
20 years ago
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Look out for look4
This is a pick for those among us that are still hardcore “command line” only kind of guys. You know, the people that would...
20 years ago
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Stop it!
Sometimes you just know you are going to want to break out of a loop in MATLAB, but ctrl-C is not what you are looking for...
20 years ago
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Dynamic plot zooming
Another pick from our special guest John D'Errico: In my travels around the file exchange, every once in a while I trip...
20 years ago
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Data Acquisition from Word?
Who’d have thought that you could acquire data from test hardware from directly within a Microsoft Word document? Who’d have...
20 years ago
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Apply a function to files
Thanks again to John D’Errico for giving Scott an extended break … Following the advent of a more sophisticated cellfun in...
20 years ago
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Congrats to the winner
Claudio Gelmi was the first person to answer my trivia question from last week. There were many ‘interesting’ answers about...
20 years ago
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Rotate a Picture GUI
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. I am a big fan of wrapping up...
20 years ago
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What time is it?
A common exercise for new hires at The MathWorks is to program a clock in MATLAB. By providing little to no specific...
20 years ago
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PLOTREGION
Here’s another entry from our guest picker, John D’Errico, as Doug and I enjoy another week relaxing … Have you ever wanted...
21 years ago
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Wildcard WHICH
This is a very exciting week for Scott and Doug’s POTW – we get to take the week off, to make room for a pick from our very...
21 years ago
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3D Navigation
While MATLAB has always led the pack for visualizing multidimensional data sets, I've got to admit that its support for...
21 years ago
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Merry Christmas
A beautiful submission from Marc Lätzel to end the year: MERRY…
21 years ago
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Laser Tracking
Last week we found that a good way to get Pick of the Week was to post something I needed on Wednesday when I normally look...
21 years ago
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Unique Filenames and a Repick
I like FREENAME as a way to generate a unique file name to add to a series of files in a directory. I have reinvented this...
21 years ago
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Dealing with Ginormous Data
Dealing with large data set is like juggling. How? Well, when you juggle three things, people are amused but pretty quickly...
21 years ago
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Default Docked Figures
I just wanted to pass along a small tip that you might find useful. If you’ve become as big of a fan of docked figures as I...
21 years ago
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Get In Units
How many times have you written code that looks like this, just to find the position of a graphics object in something other...
21 years ago
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Too much time to kill?
Have you ever sat around asking yourself if it would be possible to draw flags of the world's nations just using the patch...
21 years ago