Loren on the Art of MATLAB

Turn ideas into MATLAB

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Evens and Odds 3

There are so many functions in MATLAB that sometimes users think that if they can't find the function they are thinking of, it's because they don't know the name. Sometimes... read more >>

Math in Poetry, Poetry in Math 21

You hear a fair amount about the mathematically inclined people who are really into music. You hear less about that subset
of the same group who are into poetry, and particularly, poetry and math... read more >>

Computational Geometry in MATLAB R2009a, Part II 37

I am pleased to welcome back Damian Sheehy for the sequel to his earlier Computational Geometry post.
 
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What's your problem! ?
griddata Produces "Funny" Results
Scattered Data... read more >>

Computational Geometry in MATLAB R2009a, Part I 15

I'm pleased to introduce Damian Sheehy as this week's guest blogger. Damian is a geometry developer at The MathWorks, his background is in the area of geometric modeling and... read more >>

A Brief History of polyval 4

When I first started working at MathWorks, there were already a few functions in MATLAB for working with polynomials. One of these, polyval, for polynomial evaluation, used... read more >>

Find Largest Positive Value Next to Zero 19

Recently, Steve wrote a blog discussing code clarity/obscurity in the context of one-line code solutions. Simply stated, the problem he solved is this. Find the largest value in an... read more >>

Rooting Around in MATLAB – Part 3 4

I recently wrote a pair of posts (1 and 2) about finding roots of equations, and how you might use MATLAB to explore this topic with emphasis on the method of fixed point iteration. ... read more >>

Rooting Around in MATLAB – Part 2 2

In a recent post, I started a series of posts about finding roots of equations, and how you might use MATLAB to teach some of this topic. In particular, I will... read more >>

Rooting Around in MATLAB – Part 1 3

I've been interested in teaching for a long time, including ways to use MATLAB. One concept that students might need to understand early in their college careers is that of... read more >>

Hold Everything! 31

Have you ever tried to overlap more than one plot, only to find that you had to fiddle with a few times before it looked right? Perhaps this is because you aren't... read more >>

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