Frequent readers of this blog, will know that I am a big fan of simple things done well. I like isMonotonic because it does a simple operation well. If you look under the hood of this function, you… read more >>

Thanks to John D'Errico for stepping in as a guest picker again. ... Playtune - its not really for the musically challenged, which I am. In fact, serving me with an injunction to stay at least... read more >>

NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange.
I will admit it, as an undergraduate, we would jokingly refer to MATLAB as “Fudge-a-graph 3000”… read more >>

Often times, people want to plot two vectors of data with the same x-axis, but the vectors are at wildly different values on the y-axis. The vector with the smaller y values will often be just a… read more >>

What is better than MATLAB running on your computer? How about MATLAB running on a whole mess of computers at once making your monte carlo studies and other parallel applications running in a small… read more >>

Thanks again to guest-picker-in-residence John D’Errico …
Yes, I’ll admit that I’m one of those people who enjoys a pretty piece of mathematics. Its something you will find in… read more >>

The Image Processing Toolbox, which was introduced over ten years ago, is one of the most popular of The MathWorks’ Toolboxes, reflecting the breadth of industries in which image analysis plays a… read more >>

NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange.
This week’s guest pick of the week comes from Brett Shoelson of CSSM fame and one of the newer Language… read more >>

This is a pick for those among us that are still hardcore “command line” only kind of guys. You know, the people that would rather type >>help plot instead of >>doc plot to… read more >>

Sometimes you just know you are going to want to break out of a loop in MATLAB, but ctrl-C is not what you are looking for because you are going to want to debug. A conditional breakpoint is not… read more >>