This is a great animated clock made in MATLAB, and I chose it for several reasons: 1) Tim made use of some new R14 language features like nested functions; this makes argument passing easier to do... read more >>

At a MathWorks conference Doug and I attended last week, there was a lot of talk about SAVEPPT - Mark Brown's submission that automatically creates PowerPoint documents from MATLAB figures and... read more >>

I just became a huge fan of Tobin Driscoll, for his submission of UNPLOT to MATLAB Central. And I swear it has nothing to do with the fact that he goes to the University of Delaware, where I did my... read more >>

This weeks pick adds very useful functionality for anybody who works with filled contour plots (as created by contourf). MATLAB's standard colorbar isn't particularly well suited to filled contours,... read more >>

3D displays of data can look very flat, which is why light sources are often added. Gordon has a different method for enhancing a 3D display and the results are impressive. MATLAB has many built in... read more >>

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Quite a few of our customers are in the Aerospace and Defense sector, working on areas like threat modeling,… read more >>

Michael Wunder has come up with a very cool way to make great-looking user interfaces in MATLAB. Instead of relying on traditional user interface controls (radio buttons, push buttons, etc.), he... read more >>

Sometimes old technology becomes new again. The other day someone was showing me their Blackberry device that has a low overhead mail reader, very similar to PINE which I used until very recently... read more >>

Anybody who does much work with GUIDE is familiar with using files with large numbers of subfunctions. I'm a huge fan of the popup list of subfunctions that's built into the editor, especially now... read more >>

For many of our customers the graph that gets produced at the end of a script is their entire output that will be printed and saved. That one plot must have all the relevant information on it. This... read more >>