{"id":2831,"date":"2011-06-17T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/06\/17\/looking-back-2009-in-review\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:25:55","slug":"looking-back-2009-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/06\/17\/looking-back-2009-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2009 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today we continue looking backward, with a retrospective of all of the File Exchange Picks of the Week for 2009.<\/p>\r\n

Once again, I have skipped any Picks that refer to files that have been removed from the File Exchange, or to tutorial videos,\r\n or contest announcements, items not useful in an index of this nature.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

You can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links\r\n to the \"Pick of the Week\" tag. As always, your comments<\/a> are welcome.\r\n

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\r\nTEXTBP\r\n<\/a>\r\n

Peter Mao<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Text with legend-style \"best\" placement<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nRandom Walks in MATLAB<\/a>\r\n

Mark Hoyle<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Files which simulate random walks on a lattice and on a graph<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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PROGRAMMING PATTERNS: Some Common MATLAB Programming Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them<\/p>\r\n

Loren Shure<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tips and best practices to help you become fluent in MATLAB and achieve your programming goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n

NOTE: Although this file was posted to the File Exchange by Linda Webb<\/a>, it is actually a reprint of a News & Notes<\/a> article that Loren wrote in 2008.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMATLAB in Physics - Visualisation<\/a>\r\n

Matt McDonnell<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

The first lecture in a series on using MATLAB in undergraduate physics courses<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPlotAxisAtOrigin<\/a>\r\n

Shanrong Zhang<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates a 2D plot with axes centered at the origin<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nHeart Model for Valentine's Day<\/a>\r\n

Xin Zhao<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Generate a 3D heart surface in MATLAB<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Quantitative High-Throughput Gene Expression Imaging<\/p>\r\n

Sam Roberts<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

(Automated) Image Processing for Quantitative Gene Expression Analysis of Drosophila Embryo Images<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nGridBagLayout<\/a>\r\n

Jason<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A MATLAB class which controls layout and resize of a figure\/uipanel\/uicontainer<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n EasyGUI<\/a>\r\n

Gautam Vallabha<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Build GUIs quickly and easily in MATLAB<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Variable Precision Integer Arithmetic in MATLAB<\/a>\r\n

John D'Errico<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Arithmetic with integers of fully arbitrary size<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCamera Manipulation<\/a>\r\n

Joel Feenstra<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Demonstrates camera manipulation with roll, pitch, and yaw<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nUISplitPane<\/a>\r\n

Yair Altman<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Split a container (figure\/frame\/uipanel) into two resizable sub-containers, like Java's JSplitPane<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nLight Bartlein Color Maps<\/a>\r\n

Robert Bemis<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Generates one of four colormaps using schemes proposed in technical literature<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSuite of Fitting Functions<\/a>\r\n

Nikolai Chernov<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Functions for fitting circles and ellipses, with technical commentary<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nWaveform Generator GUI<\/a>\r\n

Maxim Vedenyov<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Interactive GUI with movable datapoints for generating and playing waveformed signals <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nUISIGNALBUILDER<\/a>\r\n

Laurent Vaylet<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A visual tool that allows to build signals and save them to workspace variables<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nHow fast is your graphics card?<\/a>\r\n

Michael Kleder<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates a challenging 3-d benchmark for graphics processing speed measurement<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCHKMEM<\/a>\r\n

Stuart McGarrity<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Detect and Diagnose MATLAB Memory Fragmentation Problems<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nArrow<\/a>\r\n

Erik Johnson<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Draw a line with an arrowhead<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Bill McDonald<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Write stereolithography (STL) file from surface data<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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paul koch<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Shifts a selected line (or all other outputs of the PLOT-function) in x- and y-direction<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCAB<\/a>\r\n

Karl<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Close all figures except those listed<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDon't let that INV go past your eyes; to solve that system, FACTORIZE!<\/a>\r\n

Tim Davis<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A simple-to-use object-oriented method for solving linear systems and least-squares problems<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n linkzoom<\/a>\r\n

Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Links the ZOOM and PAN regions of different axes<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Harry Lee<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Add multiple y-axes to plots. zoomable with zoom modification<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMATLAB Comment Stripping Toolbox<\/a>\r\n

Peter J. Acklam<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A small collection of utilities for stripping MATLAB comments from strings and files<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nfreezeColors \/ unfreezeColors<\/a>\r\n

John Iversen<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Use multiple colormaps in a single figure<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n STRUCTDLG<\/a>\r\n

Marco Cococcioni<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Takes a structure as input and automatically builds a graphical user interface for accessing\/modifying its fields<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nStructDlg<\/a>\r\n

Alon Fishbach<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A structure based definition of an input GUI<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nNXTway-GS (Self-Balancing Two-Wheeled Robot) Controller Design<\/a>\r\n

Yorihisa Yamamoto<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

NXTway-GS Model-Based Design based on Embedded Coder Robot NXT<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nAutoWarnDlg<\/a>\r\n

Jan Simon<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Self-terminating modal warning dialog with flashing icon<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\ndbmute and dbunmute<\/a>\r\n

Ken Orr<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Allows you to quickly disable all your breakpoints, and then quickly re-enable them all<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPADCAT<\/a>\r\n

Jos (10584)<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Concatenates vectors of different lengths by padding with NaNs<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Paul Mattern<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Stores data in a table format that supports printing in plain text, Latex, HTML, Wiki,...<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nexportToZip<\/a>\r\n

Malcolm Wood<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Identifies the dependencies of an M-file and creates a ZIP file<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nLASSO<\/a>\r\n

Thomas Rutten<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Enables the selection\/encircling of (clusters of) events in a scatter plot by hand<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nColored Area on a Curved Surface<\/a>\r\n

Michael Wunder<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Measure area with a certain color on top of a curved surface<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCircular Statistics Toolbox (Directional Statistics)<\/a>\r\n

Philipp Berens<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Compute descriptive and inferential statistics for circular or directional data<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nComparison of C++, Java, Python, Ruby and MATLAB Using Object Oriented Example<\/a>\r\n

Stuart McGarrity<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

RedBlack Tree Binary Search Example Used to Compare of C++, Java\u2122, Python, Ruby and MATLAB Code<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nAllstats<\/a>\r\n

Francisco de Castro<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Computes many statistics of an input vector<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nBlobsDemo<\/a>\r\n

Image Analyst<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Image Processing Tutorial to demonstrate the basic concepts to beginner users<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPeakFinder<\/a>\r\n

Nate Yoder<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Quickly finds local maxima (peaks) or minima (valleys) in a noisy signal<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nrex: a pedestrian regular expression operator synopsis generator<\/a>\r\n

us<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Prints a synopsis of the current regular expression operator syntax<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\ndegrees and radians<\/a>\r\n

Richard Medlock<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Two helper functions, one converts degrees to radians, the other rads to deg<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\npushd and popd<\/a>\r\n

Peter (PB) Bodin<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

PUSHD (directory\/file-spec) stores the current working directory and changes current directory to the one specified in the string directory-spec<\/p>\r\n

POPD brings you back to the stored directory<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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POKER PREDICTOR<\/p>\r\n

Luigi Giaccari<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A Texas Hold'em Poker Probability and Odds calculator<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSparklines Table <\/a>\r\n

James Houghton<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates plots showing data trends in dense, comparative format<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nINPUTSDLG: Enhanced Input Dialog Box<\/a>\r\n

Kesh Ikuma<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Predefined dialog box function to accept user inputs of several forms<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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