{"id":16672,"date":"2024-03-15T23:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T03:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=16672"},"modified":"2024-03-19T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T02:26:26","slug":"celebrating-pi-day-with-cool-visualizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2024\/03\/15\/celebrating-pi-day-with-cool-visualizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Pi Day with cool visualizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtcContent\">\r\n<div style=\"margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/869871\">Jiro<\/a>'s Pick this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/126210-happy-pi-day\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Happy Pi Day<\/span><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/18192500\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zhaoxu Liu \/ slandarer<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\">I'm a couple of days late, but I wanted to highlight this set of cool visualizations by Zhaoxu for Pi Day. It's amazing to see so many different types of visualizations using <span style=\"font-family: STIXGeneral-webfont, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: #212121;\">\u03c0<\/span>. Read through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/discussions\/tips\/849236-happy-pi-day\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this post<\/span><\/a> by Zhaoxu with explanations for the visualizations.<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imageNode\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; width: 471px; height: 572px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/potw_piday_1.png\" alt=\"PiLogoDemo.png\" width=\"471\" height=\"572\" \/><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\">I will let you read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/discussions\/tips\/849236-happy-pi-day\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his post<\/span><\/a> and play with the code yourself, but I'd like to end with one visualization that is fitting during this cherry blossom season.<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imageNode\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/potw_piday_2.png\" alt=\"PiTreeDemo.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" \/><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"margin: 20px 10px 5px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;\">Comments<\/h2>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 2px 10px 9px 4px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\">Give the Pi Day visualizations a try on <a href=\"https:\/\/matlab.mathworks.com\/open\/fileexchange\/v1?id=126210\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MATLAB Online<\/span><\/a>. Let us know what you think.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var css = ''; var head = document.head || document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0], style = document.createElement('style'); head.appendChild(style); style.type = 'text\/css'; if (style.styleSheet){ style.styleSheet.cssText = css; } else { style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css)); }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/potw_piday_1.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><p>\r\nJiro's Pick this week is Happy Pi Day by Zhaoxu Liu \/ slandarer.\r\nI'm a couple of days late, but I wanted to highlight this set of cool visualizations by Zhaoxu for Pi Day. It's amazing to see so... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2024\/03\/15\/celebrating-pi-day-with-cool-visualizations\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":16678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions\/16693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}