Jiro's pick this week is TEXTSCANTOOL by our very own Stuart McGarrity.   Contents My Data File Header Lines Data Types Import and Generate Code Video... read more >>

Here is a new MATLAB Puzzler.
Given two vectors representing the X and Y coordinates of some points, find the two closest points in Cartesian space.

n = 10;
x = rand(1,n);
y = rand(1,n);

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I love the power and extensibility of MATLAB. Want to create a line you can drag across your plot? It’s not so hard to create
one. (In fact, our very own Doug recently posted a nice video… read more >>

A customer recently provided me with an image of cells that were roughly circular, but not very well defined, and often overlapping. He asked how we might use MATLAB and the Image Processing... read more >>

Jiro's pick this week is INSERTROWS by Jos van der Geest.   This function does exactly what the name says: it inserts rows into a matrix. What makes this significant is that this... read more >>

Last time, I showed how to add the newly documented UITABLE to a GUI. [click here] There were a few questions [click here] about how to access the data in the UITABLE from the callback of another… read more >>

Many times, I've wanted a quick way to find the local minima or maxima in my data. Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera's submission EXTREMA makes it easy to do, and is Brett's selection for the Pick of... read more >>

MATLAB GUI developers often want to have a mini-spreadsheet in their GUI. This can be done with a new widget added to the set of controls available in GUIDE. Now with UITABLE you can add that… read more >>

Sometimes you want something to update in MATLAB on a regular schedule. Timer objects can do that for you. We first introduced this for test and measurement applications, but it has since been moved… read more >>

Bob's pick this week is IconEditor v1.4 by Elmar Tarajan. This tool could improve your MATLAB workflow more than you might think. Let me explain.   If you follow the MATLAB Desktop... read more >>