Steve Eddins has recently posted a series in his blog about colormaps. I want to add one more post. With release R2014b, we are retiring jet as the default colormap, after many years of faithful service. But did you ever wonder where jet originated, and how it came to be the default? And did you ever come across colormaps like pink and bone?... read more >>
Season's Greetings, 2014 help greetings % greetings Seasonal holiday fractal. % greetings(phi) generates a seasonal holiday fractal that depends % upon the parameter phi. The default... read more >>
Our plots of the first eigenfunction of the L-shaped membrane have changed several times over the last fifty years.... read more >>
High resolution measurements of the depth of the mold for the United States one cent coin provide an interesting data set.... read more >>
ContentsTim DavisSparse Matrix VisualizationsMusic VisualizationsMetastaseisBlue MondayElectrodoodleMorning Has BrokenBach Toccata and FugueNotesArt StudioTim DavisAt the recent SIAM conference on... read more >>
The Tektronix 4081 minicomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in the summers of 1977 and '78 played an important role in the early development of MATLAB.... read more >>
Even though I am one of the founders of the MathWorks, I only acted as an advisor to the company for its first five years. During that time, from 1985 to 1989, I was trying my luck with two Silicon Valley computer startup companies. Both enterprises failed as businesses, but the experience taught me a great deal about the computer industry, and influenced how I viewed the eventual development of MATLAB. The second startup was known as Ardent Computer for most of its brief existence.... read more >>
A Golden Spiral is simulated by a continuously expanding sequence of golden rectangles and inscribed quarter circles.... read more >>
Season's Greetings help greetings % greetings Seasonal holiday fractal. % greetings(phi) generates a seasonal holiday fractal that depends % upon the parameter phi. The default... read more >>