Looking Back: 2012 in Review

Posted by Brett Shoelson, January 4, 2013

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Happy New Year, fellow MATLABbers! As usual, we start the year off with a retrospective of all of the Picks of the past year.

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.

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ATSC: From RF to Video Dick Benson Watch HDTV in MATLAB: A set of models to process an ATSC RF signal and output an MPEG II video transport stream.
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Draggable Francois Bouffard Allows graphical objects to be dragged in a figure.
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Publish dependent and called functions Nick Angelini Publish explicitly called functions not found in the MATLAB root.
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A non-engineer tinkers with Simulink Dimitri Shvorob Publish explicitly called functions not found in the MATLAB root.
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Units Conversion Toolbox John McDermid This toolbox attaches units to Matlab variables and enables unit conversion.
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Fit all valid parametric probability distributions to data Mike Sheppard ALLFITDIST Fit all valid parametric probability distributions to data.
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Interactive curve class Maxim Vedenyov Change curves interactively by dragging markers.
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Disperse Sam Hallman Assign elements of an input array to individual output variables with a single function call.
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Google Weather Sagar Aiya Get location specific weather data using Google's Weather API.
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MATLAB Pool Husam Aldahiyat Simple game of 6-ball billiards.
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The Computation of Pi by Archimedes Bill McKeeman Archimedes wrote 3 1/7 > pi > 3 10/71. This is how he did it.
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abSIRD for MATLAB Daniel Armyr Converts a depth-map into a random dot autostereogram.
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arclength John D'Errico Compute the arclength of a general curve in any number of dimensions.
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plot_google_map Zohar Bar-Yehuda Plot a google map on the background of the current figure using the Static Google Maps API.
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A MATLAB-based Object-Oriented Approach to Multipath Fading Channel Simulation Cyril Iskander This white paper explains the algorithms used in the Communications Toobox's fading channel function.
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Read Medical Data 3D Dirk-Jan Kroon GUI to open most Medical file-formats: Dicom, V3D, ISI, NifTI, Analyze and other formats.
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grep: a pedestrian, very fast grep utility us A Unix-like, very fast grep utility to find strings(s) in files of any type.
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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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GUI development for Simulink models Nitin Skandan A tutorial on integrating GUI developed in GUIDE with Simulink model.
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Simulink Signal Viewing using Event Listeners and a MATLAB UI Phil Goddard This demo shows how to use block listeners to view model signals in a MATLAB user interface.
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tight subplot Pekka Kumpulainen Fills the figure with axes subplots with easily adjustable margins and gaps between the axes.
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geom3d David Legland Library to handle 3D geometric primitives: create, intersect, display, and make basic computations.
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Simulink model for Fetal ECG extraction (HDL Compatible algorithm) Igal This is an HDL Coder compatible Fetal ECG extraction algorithm.
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fixcase Ian Noell Check and fix case of function calls.
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Unit Converters Chad Greene Convert units of pressure, length, time, force, mass, accel., temp, speed, frequency, area, & more.
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Arrow3 Version 5 Tom Davis Draws lines with directional arrowheads.
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ScreenCapture - get a screen-capture of a figure frame or component Yair Altman ScreenCapture gets a screen-capture of any Matlab GUI handle, or specified screen area rectangle.
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shadedErrorBar Rob Campbell Creates an attractive shaded error region rather than discrete bars.
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Arduino IO package: Slides and Examples Giampiero Campa Slides for the webinar: "Learning Basic Mechatronics Concepts Using the Arduino Board and MATLAB".
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Measures of Effect Size Toolbox Harald Hentschke Computes diverse effect size statistics including confidence intervals.
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plot spread points (beeswarm plot) Jonas plotSpread plots distributions of data points, adding jitter to the points to avoid overlap.
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UIGETVARIABLES: Dialog to pass variables from workspace into GUI Scott Hirsch UIGETVARIABLES creates a dialog box for selecting variables from the base workspace.
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LTE Downlink Physical Channel processing Amit Kansal PDSCH processing using multi-codeword spatial multiplexing transmission.
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Looking Up Matt Tearle A planisphere for any given location and time.
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Better line crossings in Simulink models Josef Rieger Improves readability of Simulink models by appending "line steps" to lines where they cross.
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Stellaria (Tech Demo) - The best MATLAB shooting game ever Mingjing Zhang If you think you have played the best MATLAB game before. Think again after you try this one.
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Experiments with MATLAB Cleve Moler Apps from Experiments with MATLAB.
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Numerical Computing with MATLAB Cleve Moler Apps from Numerical Computing with MATLAB.
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GUI 2D Heat Transfer Dominik Gibala This GUI presents 2D heat tranfer in a plate.
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IMAGEVIEWER Jiro Doke A GUI for viewing and interactively exploring image files.
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MathExplorer: Learning Maths using MuPAD for Engineering Students Martin Brown A set of MuPAD notebooks which allow engineering students to visualize and experiment with maths.
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Morse Code Practice System James Willmann GUI allows the operator to send the Morse Code of the alphabet, a text string or from the keyboard.
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Gray image to Color image conversion Jeny Rajan Converts a gray image to color image.
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AutoTune Toy Carl Allows you to record and graphically manipulate and pitch correct your voice.
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tightfig Richard Crozier Remove excess margins from figures.
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Let it snow: falling snow on every figure! Mingjing Zhang Amazing falling snow effect for your MATLAB figure. Suitable for Holidays.