{"id":2653,"date":"2011-03-04T14:05:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/03\/04\/2004-in-review-looking-backward\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:57:07","slug":"2004-in-review-looking-backward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/03\/04\/2004-in-review-looking-backward\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 in Review: Looking Backward"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\n\r\nIt's been over seven years (!) since the Pick of the Week blog was started by my co-workers Scott Hirsch<\/a> and\r\nDoug Hull<\/a>. Scott and Doug have moved on to doing other things at MathWorks, but Jiro, Bob, and I--and our guests--stepped into their shoes to continue the selection and blogging process. Though the team has changed over the years, the files we've collectively picked are, for the most part, still available on the File Exchange. Nevertheless, we've never put together an index of what we've Picked over the years. So beginning this week, I thought I would start compiling annual indexes of the files that have earned the coveted \"Pick of the Week\" tag over the years. I'll start this week with 2004, and in my next several posts, I'll index the subsequent years.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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SUPTITLEAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nPlace a title above subtitles in a figure\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available; try this one<\/a> instead.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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XTICKLABEL_ROTATE<\/a>Brian Katz<\/a>\r\n\r\nRotate xticks on plots<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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KEEP<\/a>David Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\nKeep the specified variables, clear the rest<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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PRINTMATRIX<\/a>Stephan Wegerich<\/a>\r\n\r\nFormat matrix display to user-specified decimal places<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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MAKETHUMBDIR <\/a>Brett Shoelson<\/a>\r\n\r\nCreate thumbnails for all MATLAB-writeable image types of a given extension in a selected directory<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SLICEOMATIC <\/a>Eric Ludlam<\/a>\r\n\r\nVolume slice visualization GUI<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SHIFT <\/a>John T. McCarthy<\/a>\r\n\r\nSHIFT a row or column RELATIVE to the other elements in a MATRIX<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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ARTICULATED HUMANOID BODY <\/a>Walterio Mayol-Cuevas<\/a>\r\n\r\nVisualizes an articulated humanoid body in anatomical static posture\r\n\r\n(Note: Requires companion file nancybody<\/a>.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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FPEAK <\/a>Geng Jun<\/a>\r\n\r\nDetects peak values in your data<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SIMULINK ALIGNMENT TOOLAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nManage the alignment and layout of blocks in your Simulink models\r\n\r\n(Note: While this file is no longer available, much of its functionality is now provided within Simulink<\/a> itself.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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GOOGLE TOOLBOX <\/a>Matthew Simoneau<\/a>\r\n\r\nInteract with Google from your MATLAB desktop\r\n\r\n(Note: Author notes that Google has deprecated their API, and that there are no known workarounds. But you might try this submission<\/a> instead.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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MATLAB PROGRAMMING STYLE GUIDE <\/a>Richard Johnson<\/a>\r\n\r\n13 pages of advice on writing clear code<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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OCTAVE TOOLBOX <\/a>Christophe Couvreur<\/a>\r\n\r\nGenerates normalized A-weigthing, -weighting, octave and one-third-octave digital filters<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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HLINE and VLINE <\/a>Brandon Kuczenski<\/a>\r\n\r\nDraws 'low-impact' horizontal or vertical lines on the current axes<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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USEFUL BROWSER SHORTCUTSAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nA collection of useful browser links\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available; try this one<\/a> instead.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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M2HTMLAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nAutomatically creates HTML documentation for MATLAB m-files and toolboxes\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available; try MATLAB's Publish function<\/a> instead.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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MINNAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nFind the minimum value of a matrix\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available; try minn = min(x(:)); instead.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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2-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAM<\/a>Kangwon Lee<\/a>\r\n\r\nReturns a matrix of number of points in each bin defined by two vectors<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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MAGIC 8-BALL<\/a>Scott Copeland<\/a>\r\n\r\nRecreates the famous Mattel\u00ae novelty toy<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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INTERACTIVE MOVIE PLAYERAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nA movie player with full controls\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available; if you have the Image Processing Toolbox<\/a>, try IMPLAY<\/a> instead.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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INSTRUMENT DRIVERSAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nA note on supported instrument control drivers\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available; take a look at the Instrument Control Team's \"Driver Page\"<\/a> instead, where team members have shared more than 100 drivers.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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MAKING SURFACE PLOTS FROM SCATTER DATA<\/a>Zain Mecklai<\/a>\r\n\r\nA white paper that addresses how to turn a collection of XYZ triplets into a surface plot<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SPEAK<\/a>Fahad Al Mahmood<\/a>\r\n\r\nUses Excel to speak entered texts or numbers<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SELECT3D, SELECT3D TOOL Joe Conti<\/a>\r\n\r\nObtains a 3-D selection point<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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USING NUMERICAL COMPUTING WITH MATLAB IN THE CLASSROOM<\/a>\r\n\r\nCleve Moler<\/a>\r\n\r\nA collection of demos presented in a webinar by MathWorks' Chief Scientist Cleve Moler<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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RANDOM SOURCE USING THE EMBEDDED MATLAB FUNCTION BLOCK<\/a>Colin Warwick<\/a>\r\n\r\nA demonstration of MATLAB on an embedded processor<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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GRAPH_AND_TABLE<\/a>Michael Robbins<\/a>\r\n\r\nCreate a graph and a data table below it<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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ANIMATED CONVOLUTION<\/a>Michael Robbins<\/a>\r\n\r\nA simple MATLAB demo to animate the process of convolution<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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PLT<\/a>Paul Mennen<\/a>\r\n\r\nAn alternative to plot and plotyy optimized for data exploration<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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PLTSTMP<\/a>Andreas<\/a>\r\n\r\nAdds a timestamp and name of the calling script to a graph<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SUBFUNS<\/a> Robert Bemis Command-line utility to list all function declarations within a specified m-file<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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HATCHED FILL PATTERNS PLUS<\/a>Brian Katz<\/a>\r\n\r\nModified APPLYHATCH to allow for variable resolution output for printing<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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CAR PANELS GUI<\/a>Michael Wunder<\/a>\r\n\r\nDemonstrates how to map regions of an image to user-specified callback functionality<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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GALACTICAuthor: N\/A\r\n\r\nAir to air combat simulation\r\n\r\n(Note: File no longer available.)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SURFPLOT<\/a>Gordon Cooper<\/a>\r\n\r\nOverlays highpass filtered data ontop of data itself, in 3D<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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COLORBARF<\/a>Blair Greenan<\/a>\r\n\r\nAdds a colorbar to your filled contour plot<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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UNPLOT<\/a>Toby Driscoll<\/a>\r\n\r\nRemoves the most recently drawn object(s)<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SAVEPPT<\/a>Mark Brown<\/a>\r\n\r\nSaves Matlab figure windows or Simulink models to a Powerpoint file<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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BLOCKCLOCK<\/a>Tim Farajian<\/a>\r\n\r\nInteresting clock composed of animated blocks<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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ISPR<\/a>Michael Kleder<\/a>\r\n\r\nUse Java to rapidly determine whether an arbitrarily large positive integer is a prime<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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ORTHOGONALSLICER<\/a>Laszlo Balkay<\/a>\r\n\r\nVolume explorer tool by 3 orthogonal slices<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SPLASH<\/a>Qun Han<\/a>\r\n\r\nAdds a splash screen to your GUI<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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GOTO<\/a> and GOBACKScott Hirsch<\/a>\r\n\r\nJump to the directory containing a specified file, and then jump back<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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IMAQPLOT<\/a>David Tarkowski<\/a>\r\n\r\nPreview video data using callbacks<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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QUICK, EASY MAPS<\/a>Michael Kleder<\/a>\r\n\r\nTwo quick and easy functions to create simple map figures<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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DYNAMICS OF SOME CLASSICAL SYSTEM MODELS<\/a>Howard Wilson<\/a>\r\n\r\nAnimated response of some classical systems<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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SATELLITE VIEW OF GLOBE, DAY\/NIGHT<\/a>Michael Kleder<\/a>\r\n\r\nIdealized satellite view of earth with day\/night boundary<\/td>\r\n\"\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\nYou can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links to the \"Pick of the Week\" tag.\r\nAs always, your comments are welcome.\r\n\r\n