{"id":1608,"date":"2005-12-19T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T21:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:03:15","slug":"laser-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2005\/12\/19\/laser-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 to a problem I solved in a naive way before. <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=6490&amp;objectType=file (link no longer works)\">This file<\/a> would have been a great help to me when I was making this live laser tracking demo a few years ago for the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/imaq\/index.html\">Image Acquisition Toolbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a sidenote, I would like to welcome my buddy, Brett Shoelson, to the MathWorks team. He has quite a few good files, and I could not decide which to pick. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/company\/jobs\/opportunities\">Would you like to join the team too<\/a>? Send me a resume! You do not need to be in the single digits when it comes to author rank on the File Exchange, but it does help during the interview. Brett also became a MathWorks legend by bringing an interviewer, Steve, a six pack for helping him out on CSSM many years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2005\/12\/19\/laser-tracking\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}