{"id":2870,"date":"2011-07-08T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/07\/08\/looking-back-2010-in-review\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:22:16","slug":"looking-back-2010-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/07\/08\/looking-back-2010-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2010 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today we continue looking backward, completing the prior-year retrospective with an index of all of the File Exchange Picks\r\n of the Week for 2010.\r\n <\/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 <\/p>\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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\r\nuiputfile2<\/a>\r\n

Chris Cannell<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Save file dialog box which remembers last opened folder<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nlutbar: a pedestrian colormap toolbar\/contextmenu creator<\/a>\r\n

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

Creates a colormap toolbar and context menu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nfix_lines<\/a>\r\n

Oliver Woodford<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Improves the style of lines in MATLAB generated eps files<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nlabelEdgeSubPlots<\/a>\r\n

Rob Campbell<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Automatically apply x and y labels to subplots only along the edges<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCar<\/a>\r\n

Ronald Biro<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Car (BMW Roadster) made out of patchgrids<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nGuitar Tuner<\/a>\r\n

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

Graphical guitar and musical instrument tuner<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n41 Complete GUI Examples<\/a>\r\n

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

41 working GUIs to read and learn<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nuipickfiles: uigetfile on steroids<\/a>\r\n

Douglas Schwarz<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Many-featured, platform independent file and directory picker<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSimulink-GUI Synchronization Example<\/a>\r\n

Will Campbell<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Demonstrates how to synchronize GUI and Simulink model settings when user alters one or the other<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nUISETSCREENPIXELSPERINCH<\/a>\r\n

Varun Gandhi<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tool that can be used to easily set the Root Property: 'ScreenPixelsPerInch'<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSimscape Probes<\/a>\r\n

Tom Egel<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Probes for viewing physical variables<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPollock<\/a>\r\n

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

Paint like Jackson Pollock in MATLAB<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOn-figure magnifier<\/a>\r\n

David Fernandez-Prim<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Powerful on-figure magnifier, suitable for the publication of compact graphical results<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSet default values<\/a>\r\n

Richie Cotton<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A very simple function that initialises a missing or empty value in the caller function<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nIntelligent Dynamic Date Ticks<\/a>\r\n

Ameya Deoras<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Create plots with date-friendly data cursors and smart date ticks that scale with zooming & panning<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nExcel Column Conversion<\/a>\r\n

Mike Sheppard<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Switches between column number and the Excel representation<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nPanel<\/a>\r\n

Ben Mitch<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Like subplot, but with more control over layout, and WYSIWYG export to file<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nmaze_solution<\/a>\r\n

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

Solves mazes using mathematical morphology - find the route through the maze<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nputvar<\/a>\r\n

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

Assign variable(s) from a function workspace directly to the base workspace<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nprogbar<\/a>\r\n

Ben Mitch<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

General purpose progress bar for MATLAB, with less computational overhead than waitbar<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nsettings dialog<\/a>\r\n

Rody Oldenhuis<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Set or change arbitrary structure via a dialog<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nexport_fig<\/a>\r\n

Oliver Woodford<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Exports figures nicely to a number of vector & bitmap formats<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nFileSeries - Rename \/ renumber files, recursive directories<\/a>\r\n

Frederic Moisy<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Renaming and renumbering for series of files ; generalize the use of wildcards (*) for CD, LS <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nViolin Plots for plotting multiple distributions<\/a>\r\n

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

Function for plotting multiple histograms side-by-side in 2D<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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\r\nGUI Layout Toolbox<\/a>\r\n

Ben Tordoff<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Layout management objects for MATLAB GUIs<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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MATLAB xUnit Test Framework<\/p>\r\n

Steve Eddins<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A unit test framework for MATLAB code<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nLearning the Kalman Filter<\/a>\r\n

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

Basic Kalman filter, heavily commented, for beginners to Kalman filtering<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n Learning the Extended Kalman Filter<\/a>\r\n

Yi Cao<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

An implementation of Extended Kalman Filter for nonlinear state estimation<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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sun_position<\/p>\r\n

Vincent Roy<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Sun position, given observer time\/location<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nProgress Bars<\/a>\r\n

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

Attractive and full-featured progress bars<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDrawing Color Histograms and Color Clouds<\/a>\r\n

Chaitanya Sai Gaddam<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Plots color histograms and color clouds<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nmtit: a pedestrian major title creator<\/a>\r\n

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

Creates a major title in a figure with many axes<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nAnimated Double Pendulum<\/a>\r\n

Alexander Erlich<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Shows animation of the double pendulum's (mostly) chaotic behavior<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nGet HTML Table Data into MATLAB<\/a>\r\n

Jeremy Barry<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Identify tables and interactively select the data to bring into MATLAB<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nfixfig<\/a>\r\n

M. A. Hopcroft<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Modifies a Matlab figure for better visualization in on-screen presentations such as Powerpoint<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nNested sort of structure arrays<\/a>\r\n

Jake Hughey<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Performs a nested sort of a struct array based on multiple fields<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nWise Goto-Block<\/a>\r\n

Markus Baranyai<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Automatically creates the corresponding from-Block with blockname and tagname<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nNotifier<\/a>\r\n

Benjamin Kraus<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Notifies you via email or text message when your functions finish or crash<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSinkAutoConnect<\/a>\r\n

Mike Anthony<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Automatically connects single-inport blocks when block is dropped over a line in Simulink<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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CryptAES<\/p>\r\n

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

128 bit AES encryption with CBC, pure Matlab (no Java, no MEX)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOptimization Webinars<\/a>\r\n

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

Getting Started Using Optimization with MATLAB<\/p>\r\n

Global Optimization with MATLAB Products<\/p>\r\n

Speeding Up Optimization Problems Using Parallel Computing<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Links to Webinars on optimization, global optimization, and parallel-processing in optimization<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nEmbedded Coder Target for Arduino<\/a>\r\n

MathWorks' Embedded Coder Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Develop applications for the Arduino platform using Simulink<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMove a 3D object with mouse in a traditional 4-view window<\/a>\r\n

Gang Wang<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Interactively move a 3D object anywhere in the 3D space with a mouse<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDRAGZOOM - Drag and zoom tool<\/a>\r\n

Evgeny Pr <\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Allows you to interactively manage the axes in a figure<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nText Art<\/a>\r\n

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

Convert images to ASCII text art<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nTRIGDEMO<\/a>\r\n

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

Allows user to see how parameters affect plots of trigonometric functions<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nFigure to play and analyze videos with custom plots on top<\/a>\r\n

Joao Henriques<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A figure ready to scroll through and play videos, and on which you can draw custom graphics<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSimscape Simulation Results Explorer<\/a>\r\n

Atul Suri<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tool for navigating and plotting Simscape simulation data, created in MATLAB code<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nGenerate maximally perceptually-distinct colors<\/a>\r\n

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

Choose a set of n colors that can be readily distinguished from each other<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nFireworks GUI<\/a>\r\n

Jiro Doke<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Enjoy some fireworks (with sound) with this interactive GUI<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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