2004 in Review: Looking Backward
It's been over seven years (!) since the Pick of the Week blog was started by my co-workers Scott Hirsch and
Doug Hull. Scott and Doug have moved on to doing other things at MathWorks, but Jiro, Bob, and I--and our guests--stepped into their shoes to continue the selection and blogging process. Though the team has changed over the years, the files we've collectively picked are, for the most part, still available on the File Exchange. Nevertheless, we've never put together an index of what we've Picked over the years. So beginning this week, I thought I would start compiling annual indexes of the files that have earned the coveted "Pick of the Week" tag over the years. I'll start this week with 2004, and in my next several posts, I'll index the subsequent years.
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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| SUPTITLEAuthor: N/A Place a title above subtitles in a figure (Note: File no longer available; try this one instead.) |  |
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| XTICKLABEL_ROTATEBrian Katz Rotate xticks on plots |  |
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| KEEPDavid Yang Keep the specified variables, clear the rest | |
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| PRINTMATRIXStephan Wegerich Format matrix display to user-specified decimal places |  |
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| MAKETHUMBDIR Brett Shoelson Create thumbnails for all MATLAB-writeable image types of a given extension in a selected directory | |
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| SLICEOMATIC Eric Ludlam Volume slice visualization GUI |  |
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| SHIFT John T. McCarthy SHIFT a row or column RELATIVE to the other elements in a MATRIX | |
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| ARTICULATED HUMANOID BODY Walterio Mayol-Cuevas Visualizes an articulated humanoid body in anatomical static posture (Note: Requires companion file nancybody.) |  |
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| FPEAK Geng Jun Detects peak values in your data |  |
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| SIMULINK ALIGNMENT TOOLAuthor: N/A Manage the alignment and layout of blocks in your Simulink models (Note: While this file is no longer available, much of its functionality is now provided within Simulink itself.) | |
| __________________________________________________________________________ | |
| GOOGLE TOOLBOX Matthew Simoneau Interact with Google from your MATLAB desktop (Note: Author notes that Google has deprecated their API, and that there are no known workarounds. But you might try this submission instead.) |  |
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| MATLAB PROGRAMMING STYLE GUIDE Richard Johnson 13 pages of advice on writing clear code | |
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| OCTAVE TOOLBOX Christophe Couvreur Generates normalized A-weigthing, -weighting, octave and one-third-octave digital filters | |
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| HLINE and VLINE Brandon Kuczenski Draws 'low-impact' horizontal or vertical lines on the current axes |  |
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| USEFUL BROWSER SHORTCUTSAuthor: N/A A collection of useful browser links (Note: File no longer available; try this one instead.) | |
| __________________________________________________________________________ | |
| M2HTMLAuthor: N/A Automatically creates HTML documentation for MATLAB m-files and toolboxes (Note: File no longer available; try MATLAB's Publish function instead.) | |
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| MINNAuthor: N/A Find the minimum value of a matrix (Note: File no longer available; try minn = min(x(:)); instead.) | |
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| 2-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAMKangwon Lee Returns a matrix of number of points in each bin defined by two vectors |  |
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| MAGIC 8-BALLScott Copeland Recreates the famous Mattel® novelty toy |  |
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| INTERACTIVE MOVIE PLAYERAuthor: N/A A movie player with full controls (Note: File no longer available; if you have the Image Processing Toolbox, try IMPLAY instead.) |  |
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| INSTRUMENT DRIVERSAuthor: N/A A note on supported instrument control drivers (Note: File no longer available; take a look at the Instrument Control Team's "Driver Page" instead, where team members have shared more than 100 drivers.) |  |
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| MAKING SURFACE PLOTS FROM SCATTER DATAZain Mecklai A white paper that addresses how to turn a collection of XYZ triplets into a surface plot |  |
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| SPEAKFahad Al Mahmood Uses Excel to speak entered texts or numbers | |
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| SELECT3D, SELECT3D TOOL Joe Conti Obtains a 3-D selection point |  |
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| USING NUMERICAL COMPUTING WITH MATLAB IN THE CLASSROOM Cleve Moler A collection of demos presented in a webinar by MathWorks' Chief Scientist Cleve Moler | |
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| RANDOM SOURCE USING THE EMBEDDED MATLAB FUNCTION BLOCKColin Warwick A demonstration of MATLAB on an embedded processor |  |
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| GRAPH_AND_TABLEMichael Robbins Create a graph and a data table below it |  |
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| ANIMATED CONVOLUTIONMichael Robbins A simple MATLAB demo to animate the process of convolution |  |
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| PLTPaul Mennen An alternative to plot and plotyy optimized for data exploration |  |
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| PLTSTMPAndreas Adds a timestamp and name of the calling script to a graph |  |
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| SUBFUNS Robert Bemis Command-line utility to list all function declarations within a specified m-file |  |
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| HATCHED FILL PATTERNS PLUSBrian Katz Modified APPLYHATCH to allow for variable resolution output for printing |  |
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| CAR PANELS GUIMichael Wunder Demonstrates how to map regions of an image to user-specified callback functionality |  |
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| GALACTICAuthor: N/A Air to air combat simulation (Note: File no longer available.) | |
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| SURFPLOTGordon Cooper Overlays highpass filtered data ontop of data itself, in 3D |  |
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| COLORBARFBlair Greenan Adds a colorbar to your filled contour plot |  |
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| UNPLOTToby Driscoll Removes the most recently drawn object(s) | |
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| SAVEPPTMark Brown Saves Matlab figure windows or Simulink models to a Powerpoint file | |
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| BLOCKCLOCKTim Farajian Interesting clock composed of animated blocks |  |
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| ISPRMichael Kleder Use Java to rapidly determine whether an arbitrarily large positive integer is a prime | |
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| ORTHOGONALSLICERLaszlo Balkay Volume explorer tool by 3 orthogonal slices | |
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| SPLASHQun Han Adds a splash screen to your GUI |  |
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| GOTO and GOBACKScott Hirsch Jump to the directory containing a specified file, and then jump back | |
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| IMAQPLOTDavid Tarkowski Preview video data using callbacks | |
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| QUICK, EASY MAPSMichael Kleder Two quick and easy functions to create simple map figures |  |
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| DYNAMICS OF SOME CLASSICAL SYSTEM MODELSHoward Wilson Animated response of some classical systems | |
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| SATELLITE VIEW OF GLOBE, DAY/NIGHTMichael Kleder Idealized satellite view of earth with day/night boundary |  |
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