MATLAB Programming Contest Blog

November 10th, 2008

New video commentary posted

Doug has posted his video commentary showing the first five King Of The Hill entries running on the first three boards.  Watch it here.

5 Responses to “New video commentary posted”

  1. Darren Rowland replied on :

    Hi,
    Not exactly related to this thread. Annoyed somewhat that I didn’t receive a notification email about the contest even though I subscribed to the list on the 30th of October. This looks like an intriguing scenario. Congratulations to the winners so far!

  2. Alan Chalker replied on :

    Darren:

    You bring up a good point. I got an email notice quite a while ago about the contest, but I didn’t get anything right before the contest like I used to. I suspect the team just forgot to send one out.

  3. Alan Chalker replied on :

    Doug:

    Thanks for the cool video analysis. It really helped me understand what the behavior of the solvers is. I noticed the title screen says the video was made in MATLAB. Did you just use some sort of simple program with getframe calls and then a final movietoavi or did you do something more sophisticated? Is there some way to add the voiceover within MATLAB as well?

  4. hull replied on :

    Alan,

    I made the video with Camtasia. That is how I make all the videos that appear on my blog:

    http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos

    It is screen capture software and video editing is included. The “Made in MATLAB” tag is a reference to what version of MATLAB I was using, not how I captured the recording.

    -Doug

  5. Alan Chalker replied on :

    Doug:

    Ahhh.. that makes sense. I’ve heard of Camtasia, although I’m a little disappointed to hear you aren’t using MATLAB at least a little for the process since it does have some basic functionality. I’ve helped some students in the past generate some pretty amazing visualizations entirely within MATLAB. Shoot me an email if you’re interesting in see the results or hearing about some of the issues we had.

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