Looking Backwards: 2006 in Review
This week, I continue looking backward, with a retrospective of all of the File Exchange Picks of the Week for the 2006.
Also, this week we would like to officially welcome the newest member of the MATLAB Central family, MATLAB Answers. In this forum, you can ask or answer MATLAB-related questions, vote for best answers, and search for and comment on existing answers. It's off to a great start, and promises to be a useful repository of information. And it's fun: you can build a "reputation" by contributing to the forum! Give it a try and let us hear about your experiences with MATLAB Answers.
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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DOOM 1.3
Fly through a 3D scene like in a first-person shooter in "god mode"
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WHICHX
File search within MATLAB search path using wildcards NOTE: This was a guest Pick by File Exchange superstar John D'Erico. |
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PLOT 2D/3D REGION
plots convex closed regions in 2D/3D NOTE: This was a guest Pick by File Exchange superstar John D'Erico. |
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3D CLOCK WITH GEARTRAIN
A clock built using a general 3d rendering engine which supports shafts, gears, and clock-hands
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IMAGE ROTATION GUI User interface for the IMROTATE function
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CONGRATS TO THE WINNER
Claudio Gelmi takes the prize for successfully identifying Loren Shure from the "pout.tif" image that ships with the Image Processing Toolbox
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FILEFUN: APPLY A FUNCTION TO FILES
Adds multi-file functionality to functions handling only single files
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EDUCATIONAL LAB REPORT DATA ACQUISITION EXAMPLE
An example on how one might use the notebook feature of Microsoft Word to create a lab to do data acquisition
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MAGNIFY
Turns the mouse into a pop-up magnifying glass to look at details of 2D plots
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MAGNIFYRECTTOFIG
Magnify contents of dragged rectangle in a new figure
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DBLOOP
Allows you to enter debug mode at the press of a key
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LOOK4
LOOKFOR substitute that uses a database for quick searching of MATLAB® files
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LINSPACEN and LOGSPACEN
Duane Hanselman
NOTE: These files have been removed from the File Exchange. But there are several files to consider instead, including: LINSPACEM, LINSPACENDIM, NDLINSPACE (v1.1, feb 2008), LERP, LINSPACE2, and LOGSPACEM. |
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THRESH_TOOL
Interactively select intensity level for image thresholding
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RANDFIXEDTHUMB
Randomly and uniformly generates vectors with a specified sum and values in a specified interval
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DCTOOL
Graphical interface useful for displaying the status of a distributed computing network
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LAYERPLOT
A feature-rich alternative to PLOTYY
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REMOVE WILDPOINTS GRAPHICALLY
Jean-Luc Interactive point selection and removal
NOTE: This file has been removed from the File Exchange.Try MATLAB's Data Brushing Tools instead. |
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PLAYTUNE
Plays musical tunes; includes several scores, including Canon in D (Pachelbel) and Prelude No 1 (Bach)
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ISMONOTONIC
Determines whether or not a vector or matrix is monotonically increasing or decreasing
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PLAYMOVIE
Plays a matlab movie, with the option of using a slider
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SPRINGLAB
Interactive runtime simulation of elastic bodies
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POLAR3D
Plots 3D polar data with axes
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Webinar on Distributed Computing
A recording of a webinar on parallel and distributed computing in MATLAB.
NOTE: Doug's webinar was nice, but it's quite dated now. Consider searching here for a more recent webinar on parallel and distributed computing. |
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SORT_NAT
Sort strings in natural order |
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EXTERNAL I/O AND STATE INFORMATION BLOCK
Generates file during code generation from Simulink, containing external inputs, outputs and states
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SEASHELL
Creates and displays a pretty seashell
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MAT2CLIP
Copies the contents of a matrix to the CLIPBOARD
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MULTIPLE CONCURRENT WORKSPACES
A function that simulates multiple workspaces without saving info to disk
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Video on Profiling Code
Demonstrates how to find bottlenecks in your code
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STEPSPECS
Duane Hanselman Calculate the response of a linear state-space model
NOTE: This file has been removed from the File Exchange. Try this file instead. Or use the STEP function from the Control System Toolbox. |
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Videos on Handle Graphics and Shortcuts
Demonstrates how to use handle graphics and how to create shortcuts
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Video on Changing Properties within GUIDE
Demonstrates how to use handle graphics and how to create shortcuts
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Video on Distributed Computing
A video on parallel and distributed computing in MATLAB.
NOTE: This video is quite dated now. Consider searching ! here for a recent webinar on parallel and distributed computing. |
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Video on Linking and Constraining Zoom in MATLAB
Demonstrates how to link and constrain zooming functionality
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Video on Report Generation in MATLAB
Demonstrates how to create reports in MATLAB
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Video on Writing Cleaner MATLAB Code
Demonstrates how to write cleaner code in MATLAB
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EMBEDDED CODER ROBOT NXT DEMO
Demonstrates Model-Based Design using Simulink models with Lego robots
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