Sean‘s pick this week is digcircs by Graham W Griffiths.

My pick this week is a really cool visualization of the numbers in a sequence. digCircs draws colored parabolic lines between sequential digits in a sequence. Take a look at the first 10000 digits of pi:

or e:

Now there’s actually another reason I picked this. A large portion of my job is staying on top of new features in MATLAB so that I can help customers adopt the technology. As such, I maniacally read the release notes and generally recommend everyone do the same. It’s always exciting to see a new feature in the wild and that is the case with this.

Starting in R2019a, you can use HEX color codes for MATLAB graphics objects. Graham uses this to determine the colors of the lines. Here’s a simple example:

cols1 =  [  "#D78553", ... %  1
            "#4E3270", ... %  2
            "#C877C8", ... %  3
            "#1C5D5C", ... %  4
            "#2BE7D2", ... %  5
            "#113C7E", ... %  6
            "#1279F1", ... %  7
            "#35472A", ... %  8
            "#9EC26D", ... %  9
            "#543725"];    % 10

h = plot(magic(10));
for ii = 1:10
    h(ii).Color = cols1(ii);
end

Comments

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Get the MATLAB code

Published with MATLAB® R2020a