This is a very exciting week for Scott and Doug’s POTW – we get to take the week off, to make room for a pick from our very special guest, John D’Errico. Thanks for the vacation,… read more >>

While MATLAB has always led the pack for visualizing multidimensional data sets, I've got to admit that its support for navigating 3-Dimensional space has always been a bit lacking. The camera... read more >>

A beautiful submission from Marc Lätzel to end the year:
MERRY… read more >>

Last week we found that a good way to get Pick of the Week was to post something I needed on Wednesday when I normally look for picks. This week the way to get picked is to write an elegant solution… read more >>

I like FREENAME as a way to generate a unique file name to add to a series of files in a directory. I have reinvented this wheel several times in the past and then lost it because of my incredible… read more >>

Dealing with large data set is like juggling. How? Well, when you juggle three things, people are amused but pretty quickly they want you do do four, then five. It is the same with the size of your... read more >>

I just wanted to pass along a small tip that you might find useful. If you’ve become as big of a fan of docked figures as I have, you might be looking for a way to have figures docked by… read more >>

How many times have you written code that looks like this, just to find the position of a graphics object in something other than its current units?
hAxes = axes;
currentUnits =… read more >>

Have you ever sat around asking yourself if it would be possible to draw flags of the world's nations just using the patch command? And then realized that this means you could easily embed flags in... read more >>

In my old job, I occasionally needed to analyze data that I only had access to in printouts. I hoped that somebody had developed an equivalent to OCR (Optical Character Recgonition) for data, but… read more >>