Looking Back: 2013 in Review

Posted by Brett Shoelson, December 20, 2013

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As 2013 comes to a close, we again continue our tradition of taking a retrospective look at the year's Picks of the Week. There have been some great additions to the File Exchange this year; hopefully that is reflected in our selections.

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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Functional Programming Constructs Tucker McClure A set of files for treating many operations, like "if", "for", and even "()", as functions.
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Custom GINPUT Jiro Doke GINPUT with customizable cursor..
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boundedline: line plots with shaded error/confidence intervals Kelly Kearney Plot one or more lines with a shaded boundary (can represent error, confidence intervals, etc).
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Loss Calculation in a Buck Converter Using SimPowerSystems and Simscape Pierre Giroux A SimPowerSystems model is used to calculate switching and conduction losses in a buck converter.
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Recursive Directory Searching for Multiple File Specs Jonathan Sullivan Searches a directory for multiple file specs with optional recursivity.
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A MATLAB Script for Calculating Greenwich Sidereal Time with NOVAS David Eagle MATLAB script named demo_sidtim.m and support functions for computing Greenwich sidereal time.
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Simulink Support Package for Raspberry Pi Hardware MathWorks Simulink Team Credit-card sized, low-cost, single-board computer with audio and video input/output. Now supported by Simulink.
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Simulink Support Package for Gumstix Overo Hardware MathWorks Simulink Team Simulink block library for programming Gumstix Overo.
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Data Acquisition Toolbox Support Package for Digilent Analog Discovery hardware MathWorks Data Acquisition Toolbox Team Support Package Installer File that works with Support Package Installer.
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Image Acquisition Toolbox Support Package for Kinect For Windows Runtime MathWorks Image Acquisition Toolbox Team Acquire data from Microsoft Kinect For Windows into MATLAB.
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All Purpose Mortgage Calculator including mortgage schedule S B This calculator gives you all the information you need to know while shopping for a mortgage Loan.
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randomfacegenerator Joseph Hollmann Function creates random cartoon faces.
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Imagine Christian Wuerslin 4D/3D image visualization and evaluation GUI.
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Sim.I.am Jean-Pierre de la Croix A MATLAB-based educational bridge between theory and practice in robotics.
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setname Andrew Bliss Changes the figure name to equal the figure title.
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TOGGLEFIG Brett Shoelson Finds and activates, or creates, figure with user-specified name.
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Raspberry Pi DC Motor H-Bridge Driver Block SFunction Joshua Hurst DC Motor Driver Block using Soft PWM of WiringPi Library.
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Colorspace Transformations Pascal Getreuer Transform colors between sRGB, YCbCr, YPbPr, YUV, YIQ, HSV, HSL, HSI, XYZ, Lab, Luv, LCH, CAT02 LMS.
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Compare GPUs using standard numerical benchmarks in MATLAB. Parallel Computing Team Compare GPUs using standard numerical benchmarks in MATLAB.
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Delta Sigma Toolbox Richard Schreier High-level design and simulation of delta-sigma modulators.
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Plot (Big) Tucker McClure Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster.
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Dynamic Mask Field Changing from Selected Pulldown Menu David Manegold Want to change your Mask fields based on a mask value when (pull down) when you select it?
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Spirograph GUI Brian Moore A MATLAB GUI for generating customizable multilayer spirographs.
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multicomet Ben Dichter Does the same thing as comet, but with multiple trajectories at once.
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Dynamical Systems with Applications using MATLAB Stephen Lynch Companion software for the book of the same name.
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Image Measurement Utility Jan Neggers Interactive tool allowing the measurement of distances, radii, and angles in images.
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ccc Chad Greene close all; clear all; clc;
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clr == clear all; close all; clc; Brenden Epps clr clears your workspace and command window, so you can start fresh.
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Save and load MATLAB "projects" in editor Kevin Bartlett Saves and loads MATLAB "projects" in editor (currently-open files, working directory, search path).
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Startup MATLAB in last working directory Michelle Hirsch Directions for having MATLAB® start in the last working directory.
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Android Sensor support from MATLAB MathWorks Mobile Sensor Connectivity Team Use MATLAB to acquire sensor data from built-in sensors on your Android device.
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line_fewer_markers Massimo Ciacci An alias of the LINE command, with additional control for markers, in number and location.
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Schemaball Oleg Komarov Plot correlation matrix as a schemaball.
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Colormaps compatible with red-green color perception deficiencies Matthias Geissbuehler Colormaps for displaying data compatible with red-green color perception deficiencies.
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inpolyhedron - are points inside a triangulated volume? Sven Test if 3d points are inside a mesh. Or, voxelise a mask from a surface. Mesh can be non-convex too!
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bordertext Jan de Wilde Place text on borders of the figure, border of the subplots, on the inner-side or outer-side.
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Web-browser viewable GUI animations of .PNGs, .GIFs, etc. Kevin Bartlett Creates javascript/html GUI-driven animation of still images (GIFs, JPEGs, etc.).
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regexpBuilder Michael Ryan regexpBuilder is a GUI that aims to simplify the creation of regexps in MATLAB.
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vol3d v2 Oliver Woodford 3-d volume (voxel) rendering.
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exportToPPTX Stefan Slonevskiy MATLAB tool for exporting data to PowerPoint 2007+ files without using COM-objects automation.
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TextZoomable for text that scales as you zoom Ken Purchase Text that zooms as you zoom your plot, rather than staying at a fixed font size.
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cloudPlot Daniel Armyr A function to plot the distribution of 2-dimensional data.
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3D Comet Plot Nick 3D Comet Plot with user specified tail length and line/marker configuration.
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RootFinding Demo Teja Muppirala A demo of root-finding using Newton’s Method.
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matwho Benjamin Kraus Quickly list the variables in the specified .MAT file.
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App Builder for SimBiology Models Asawari Samant Tool to automate the process of creating standalone, model-exploration apps for SimBiology model.
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Download Daily Data from Google and Yahoo! Finance Michael Weidman Provides functions for getting data from both data sources as well as helper utility functions.