Looking Back: 2010 in Review

Posted by Brett Shoelson, July 8, 2011

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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