File Exchange Pick of the Week

Our best user submissions

Looking Back: 2010 in Review

Today we continue looking backward, completing the prior-year retrospective with an index of all of the File Exchange Picks of the Week for 2010.

Once again, I have skipped any Picks that refer to files that have been removed from the File Exchange, or to tutorial videos, or contest announcements, items not useful in an index of this nature.

You can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links to the "Pick of the Week" tag. As always, your comments are welcome.

Title/Author/Summary/Notes Image
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uiputfile2

Chris Cannell

Save file dialog box which remembers last opened folder

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lutbar: a pedestrian colormap toolbar/contextmenu creator

us

Creates a colormap toolbar and context menu

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fix_lines

Oliver Woodford

Improves the style of lines in MATLAB generated eps files

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labelEdgeSubPlots

Rob Campbell

Automatically apply x and y labels to subplots only along the edges

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Car

Ronald Biro

Car (BMW Roadster) made out of patchgrids

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Guitar Tuner

Ryan

Graphical guitar and musical instrument tuner

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41 Complete GUI Examples

Matt Fig

41 working GUIs to read and learn

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uipickfiles: uigetfile on steroids

Douglas Schwarz

Many-featured, platform independent file and directory picker

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Simulink-GUI Synchronization Example

Will Campbell

Demonstrates how to synchronize GUI and Simulink model settings when user alters one or the other

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UISETSCREENPIXELSPERINCH

Varun Gandhi

Tool that can be used to easily set the Root Property: 'ScreenPixelsPerInch'

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Simscape Probes

Tom Egel

Probes for viewing physical variables

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Pollock

James Roberts

Paint like Jackson Pollock in MATLAB

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On-figure magnifier

David Fernandez-Prim

Powerful on-figure magnifier, suitable for the publication of compact graphical results

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Set default values

Richie Cotton

A very simple function that initialises a missing or empty value in the caller function

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Intelligent Dynamic Date Ticks

Ameya Deoras

Create plots with date-friendly data cursors and smart date ticks that scale with zooming & panning

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Excel Column Conversion

Mike Sheppard

Switches between column number and the Excel representation

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Panel

Ben Mitch

Like subplot, but with more control over layout, and WYSIWYG export to file

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maze_solution

Image Analyst

Solves mazes using mathematical morphology - find the route through the maze

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putvar

John D'Errico

Assign variable(s) from a function workspace directly to the base workspace

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progbar

Ben Mitch

General purpose progress bar for MATLAB, with less computational overhead than waitbar

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settings dialog

Rody Oldenhuis

Set or change arbitrary structure via a dialog

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export_fig

Oliver Woodford

Exports figures nicely to a number of vector & bitmap formats

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FileSeries - Rename / renumber files, recursive directories

Frederic Moisy

Renaming and renumbering for series of files ; generalize the use of wildcards (*) for CD, LS

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Violin Plots for plotting multiple distributions

Jonas

Function for plotting multiple histograms side-by-side in 2D

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GUI Layout Toolbox

Ben Tordoff

Layout management objects for MATLAB GUIs

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MATLAB xUnit Test Framework

Steve Eddins

A unit test framework for MATLAB code

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Learning the Kalman Filter

Michael Kleder

Basic Kalman filter, heavily commented, for beginners to Kalman filtering

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Learning the Extended Kalman Filter

Yi Cao

An implementation of Extended Kalman Filter for nonlinear state estimation

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sun_position

Vincent Roy

Sun position, given observer time/location

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Progress Bars

Richard Stapenhurst

Attractive and full-featured progress bars

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Drawing Color Histograms and Color Clouds

Chaitanya Sai Gaddam

Plots color histograms and color clouds

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mtit: a pedestrian major title creator

us

Creates a major title in a figure with many axes

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Animated Double Pendulum

Alexander Erlich

Shows animation of the double pendulum's (mostly) chaotic behavior

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Get HTML Table Data into MATLAB

Jeremy Barry

Identify tables and interactively select the data to bring into MATLAB

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fixfig

M. A. Hopcroft

Modifies a Matlab figure for better visualization in on-screen presentations such as Powerpoint

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Nested sort of structure arrays

Jake Hughey

Performs a nested sort of a struct array based on multiple fields

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Wise Goto-Block

Markus Baranyai

Automatically creates the corresponding from-Block with blockname and tagname

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Notifier

Benjamin Kraus

Notifies you via email or text message when your functions finish or crash

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SinkAutoConnect

Mike Anthony

Automatically connects single-inport blocks when block is dropped over a line in Simulink

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CryptAES

Jan Simon

128 bit AES encryption with CBC, pure Matlab (no Java, no MEX)

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Optimization Webinars

Stuart Kozola

Getting Started Using Optimization with MATLAB

Global Optimization with MATLAB Products

Speeding Up Optimization Problems Using Parallel Computing

Links to Webinars on optimization, global optimization, and parallel-processing in optimization

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Embedded Coder Target for Arduino

MathWorks' Embedded Coder Team

Develop applications for the Arduino platform using Simulink

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Move a 3D object with mouse in a traditional 4-view window

Gang Wang

Interactively move a 3D object anywhere in the 3D space with a mouse

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DRAGZOOM - Drag and zoom tool

Evgeny Pr

Allows you to interactively manage the axes in a figure

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Text Art

AJ Johnson

Convert images to ASCII text art

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TRIGDEMO

Matt Fig

Allows user to see how parameters affect plots of trigonometric functions

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Figure to play and analyze videos with custom plots on top

Joao Henriques

A figure ready to scroll through and play videos, and on which you can draw custom graphics

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Simscape Simulation Results Explorer

Atul Suri

Tool for navigating and plotting Simscape simulation data, created in MATLAB code

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Generate maximally perceptually-distinct colors

Tim Holy

Choose a set of n colors that can be readily distinguished from each other

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Fireworks GUI

Jiro Doke

Enjoy some fireworks (with sound) with this interactive GUI




Published with MATLAB® 7.12

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