{"id":2621,"date":"2010-11-24T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2010\/11\/24\/thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2010-11-24T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:33:13","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2010\/11\/24\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <p>Here's a quick, off-schedule post today. In the U.S., this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving\">Thanksgiving<\/a> holiday, so I just wanted to do a fun post before the break.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>I was looking to create an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ASCII_art\">ASCII art<\/a> of a turkey (which is oftentimes consumed during Thanksgiving), and I happened to check to see if anyone had created a tool\r\n      in MATLAB. Sure enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/4332\">AJ<\/a> wrote this function <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/4062-text-art\"><tt>textart<\/tt><\/a> that worked nicely. I just found an image of a turkey and ran it through his function.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>Happy Thanksgiving!!<\/p>\r\n   <p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/pick\/jiro\/potw_turkeyart\/turkeyascii.png\"> <\/p>\r\n   <p><b>Comments<\/b><\/p>\r\n   <p>Try it out on your own images and let us know what you think <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=2621#respond\">here<\/a> or leave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/4062-text-art#comments\">comment<\/a> for AJ.\r\n   <\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\">\r\n<!--\r\n\r\n    function grabCode_7da7be8a271a47a4881fa6c872307fbf() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='7da7be8a271a47a4881fa6c872307fbf ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 7da7be8a271a47a4881fa6c872307fbf';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        author = 'Jiro Doke';\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2010 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add author and copyright lines at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if ((author.length > 0) || (copyright.length > 0)) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (author.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + author + '_');\r\n            }\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n      \r\n      d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n      d.close();\r\n      }   \r\n      \r\n-->\r\n<\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><a href=\"javascript:grabCode_7da7be8a271a47a4881fa6c872307fbf()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \r\n            the MATLAB code \r\n            <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript><\/span><\/a><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; 7.11<br><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!--\r\n7da7be8a271a47a4881fa6c872307fbf ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%%\r\n% Here's a quick, off-schedule post today. In the U.S., this week is\r\n% <http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving Thanksgiving> holiday, so I\r\n% just wanted to do a fun post before the break.\r\n%\r\n% I was looking to create an <http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ASCII_art ASCII\r\n% art> of a turkey (which is oftentimes consumed during Thanksgiving), and\r\n% I happened to check to see if anyone had created a tool in MATLAB. Sure\r\n% enough, <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/4332\r\n% AJ> wrote this function\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/4062-text-art\r\n% |textart|> that worked nicely. I just found an image of a turkey and ran\r\n% it through his function.\r\n%\r\n% Happy Thanksgiving!!\r\n%\r\n% <<turkeyascii.png>>\r\n%\r\n% *Comments*\r\n%\r\n% Try it out on your own images and let us know what you think\r\n% <https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=2621#respond here> or leave a\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/4062-text-art#comments\r\n% comment> for AJ.\r\n\r\n##### SOURCE END ##### 7da7be8a271a47a4881fa6c872307fbf\r\n-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n   Here's a quick, off-schedule post today. In the U.S., this week is Thanksgiving holiday, so I just wanted to do a fun post before the break.\r\n   \r\n   I was looking to create an ASCII art of a... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2010\/11\/24\/thanksgiving\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"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\/2621"}],"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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}