{"id":1785,"date":"2012-10-31T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2018-01-08T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T19:39:45","slug":"matlab-knots-contest-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2012\/10\/31\/matlab-knots-contest-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Knots Contest has started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall 2012 MATLAB Contest is <strong><\/strong> inspired by the game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planarity.net\/#\">Planarity<\/a>. But it was also inspired by the problem of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordian_Knot\">Gordian Knot<\/a>. The problem is this: Given a deranged hairball of a knot, can you untie it?<\/p>\n<p>In more software-friendly terms, the problem can be restated as this: Given a list of points and their connectivity as supplied by an adjacency matrix, move them around so that the lines do not cross.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1791\" title=\"knots\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/knots1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our contest will run from 16:00 UTC Wednesday, 31 October through to 16:00 UTC Wednesday, 7 November. Join the contest fun, and compete with the best programmers from all over the world!<\/p>\n<p>You can learn about the contest by reading Ned&#8217;s <a title=\"Knots Contest Rules\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/contest\/contests\/38\/rules\">Knots Rules<\/a>. Download sample code from <a title=\"Knots Contest Download\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/38649-matlab-contest-knots\">File Exchange<\/a> and then submit <a title=\"Knots entry submission\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/contest\/contests\/38\/submissions\/new\">your own entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall 2012 MATLAB Contest is  inspired by the game Planarity. But it was also inspired by the problem of the Gordian Knot. The problem is this: Given a deranged hairball of a knot, can you untie&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2012\/10\/31\/matlab-knots-contest-has-started\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}