Looking Back: 2011 in Review

Posted by Brett Shoelson, February 17, 2012

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Having recently wrapped up another great year for the File Exchange (a year in which we saw the number of submissions grow more than 18 percent-- from 12216 to 14455), and another great year of expanding readership for the Pick-of-the-Week blog, it's time once again for a retrospective. Today's blog post provides an index of all of the File Exchange Picks of the Week for 2011.

As with past retrospectives, 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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Create From Blocks Giacomo Faggiani Create 'From' blocks with same appearance and properties of 'Goto' blocks selected in the model
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Good MATLAB Coding Practices (Muliple Authors) Guidelines for writing better MATLAB code
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NRGSymphonieRead Todd Schultz Import NRG Systems Symphonie data logger text files
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Cascade Isaac Noh Cascades existing figure windows
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SimEvents: Process Logistics Library Rick Rosson Add-on library for SimEvents® that provides useful blocks for modeling process logistics
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columnlegend Simon Henin Creates a legend with a specified number of columns
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menubar Dirk-Jan Kroon Create menu bar(s) at any location in a figure window
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MS_Regress - A Package for Markov Regime Switching Models Marcelo Perlin Functions to estimate, simulate and forecast Markov regime switching models in MATLAB
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Theme from Super Mario Brothers Song James Humes Plays the Super Mario Brothers theme song
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HandleGraphicsSetGet class Andrew Newell An extension of the handle graphics set/get class HGSETGET
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GetFullPath Jan Simon Full path name for partial or relative path
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Simlog Robin Larsson GUI to enable easy logging of multiple signals in Simulink. Log a complete subsystem with one click
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Analog / Mixed Signal Examples Dick Benson Extensive collection of examples for analog and mixed signal design work
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ObliqueView John Barber View an axes using an oblique projection
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Add Simulink Blocks from a given Model File with context menu Paul Customizes Simulink context menu with all blocks from a model file custom_context_menu_blocks.mdl
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Interactive Data Navigation Pane Widget Thomas Montagnon Widget to interactively & graphically select a section of a large dataset you want to work on
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Minor Time Step Logging Guy Rouleau Demonstration showing how to log data computed by the Simulink® solver at minor time steps
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legendflex: A more flexible legend Kelly Kearney Create a legend with more flexible positioning and labeling capabilities
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Video Sudoku Solver Teja Muppirala Solves a sudoku with a web camera and then displays it while tracking the original video feed
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Creating Hatched Patches (Multiple Authors) Multiple files show how to hatch patches and legends
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Matlab 3D figure to 3D (X)HTML Dirk-Jan Kroon Converts 3D objects of a Matlab figure to XHTML embedded X3D file. Interactive 3D website graphics
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Pack & Unpack variables to & from structures with enhanced functionality Adi Navve v2struct packs and unpacks variables to and from structures with enhanced functionality
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AutoSizeOnConnect Mike Anthony Automatically resizes the number of ports on a Simulink block for automatic connection
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MorphTool Brett Shoelson An interactive environment for morphologically operating on images
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Smart PowerPoint Exporter Dmitriy Aronov Exports Matlab figures to PowerPoint, fixing formatting directly in PowerPoint to allow easy editing
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Pilot Directed Continuous Synchronization of OFDM Dick Benson Model of a generic OFDM system with closed loop control of carrier and timing recovery
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Fast and Robust Curve Intersections Douglas Schwarz Computes intersection points of two curves
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BallBeam Jeffrey Kantor Demonstrates Proportional-Derivative (PD) control using a ball and beam simulation
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cmtdtool Yasumitsu Ito cmtdtool can reduce and automate manual operations required to perform model-based testing
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fdep: a pedestrian function dependencies finder us FDEP dissects MATLAB files and iteratively looks for all user defined functions used during runtime
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notBoxPlot - alternative to box plots Rob Campbell Visualizes raw (grouped) data along with the mean, 95% confidence interval, and 1 SD
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Traveling Salesman Problem - Genetic Algorithm Joseph Kirk Finds a near-optimal solution to a TSP using a GA
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Ellipse David Long Adds ellipses to the current plot
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Chebfun Chebfun Team Numerical computation with functions instead of numbers
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Batman Equation: The Legend Mingjing Zhang Plot the Batman logo with the legendary "batman equation"
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3D Polar Plot Ken Garrard Plots 3d polar data with polar axis and polar grid
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Adjust error bar width Arnaud Laurent Adjust error bars width in an errorbar plot to a ratio of the x-axis or a length (x-axis units)
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Scrollsubplot Bjorn Gustavsson Extends subplot to infinite canvas
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Moody Diagram Tom Davis Generates Moody Diagram
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Vivid Colormap Joseph Kirk Creates a personalized, vivid colormap
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Simulink for Natural Interaction Device (NID) Takashi Chikamasa A set of Simulink blocks interfaced with OpenNI and Microsoft Kinect SDK
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CPU Info Ben Tordoff Read various bits of information about the CPU and operating system
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addcopyright Mirko Hrovat Add copyright information to an m-file or group of m-files