{"id":4970,"date":"2013-12-20T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2016-11-27T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T19:12:05","slug":"looking-back-2013-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2013\/12\/20\/looking-back-2013-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2013 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As 2013 comes to a close, we again continue our tradition of taking a retrospective\r\nlook at the year's Picks of the Week. There have been some great additions to the File Exchange \r\nthis year; hopefully that is reflected in our selections.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

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\r\nFunctional Programming Constructs<\/a>\r\n

Tucker McClure<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A set of files for treating many operations, like \"if\", \"for\", and even \"()\", as functions.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nCustom GINPUT<\/a>\r\n

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

GINPUT with customizable cursor..<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nboundedline: line plots with shaded error\/confidence intervals<\/a>\r\n

Kelly Kearney<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Plot one or more lines with a shaded boundary (can represent error, confidence intervals, etc).<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nLoss Calculation in a Buck Converter Using SimPowerSystems and Simscape<\/a>\r\n

Pierre Giroux<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A SimPowerSystems model is used to calculate switching and conduction losses in a buck converter.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nRecursive Directory Searching for Multiple File Specs<\/a>\r\n

Jonathan Sullivan<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Searches a directory for multiple file specs with optional recursivity.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nA MATLAB Script for Calculating Greenwich Sidereal Time with NOVAS<\/a>\r\n

David Eagle<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

MATLAB script named demo_sidtim.m and support functions for computing Greenwich sidereal time.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSimulink Support Package for Raspberry Pi Hardware<\/a>\r\n

MathWorks Simulink Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Credit-card sized, low-cost, single-board computer with audio and video input\/output. Now supported by Simulink.<\/p>\r\n

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Simulink Support Package for Gumstix Overo Hardware<\/p>\r\n

MathWorks Simulink Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Simulink block library for programming Gumstix Overo. <\/p>\r\n

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\r\nData Acquisition Toolbox Support Package for Digilent Analog Discovery hardware<\/a>\r\n

MathWorks Data Acquisition Toolbox Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Support Package Installer File that works with Support Package Installer.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nImage Acquisition Toolbox Support Package for Kinect For Windows Runtime<\/a>\r\n

MathWorks Image Acquisition Toolbox Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Acquire data from Microsoft Kinect For Windows into MATLAB.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nAll Purpose Mortgage Calculator including mortgage schedule<\/a>\r\n

S B<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

This calculator gives you all the information you need to know while shopping for a mortgage Loan.<\/p>\r\n

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Joseph Hollmann<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Function creates random cartoon faces.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nImagine\r\n

Christian Wuerslin<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

4D\/3D image visualization and evaluation GUI.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSim.I.am<\/a>\r\n

Jean-Pierre de la Croix<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A MATLAB-based educational bridge between theory and practice in robotics.<\/p>\r\n

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Andrew Bliss<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Changes the figure name to equal the figure title.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nTOGGLEFIG<\/a>\r\n

Brett Shoelson<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Finds and activates, or creates, figure with user-specified name.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nRaspberry Pi DC Motor H-Bridge Driver Block SFunction<\/a>\r\n

Joshua Hurst<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

DC Motor Driver Block using Soft PWM of WiringPi Library.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nColorspace Transformations<\/a>\r\n

Pascal Getreuer<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Transform colors between sRGB, YCbCr, YPbPr, YUV, YIQ, HSV, HSL, HSI, XYZ, Lab, Luv, LCH, CAT02 LMS.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nCompare GPUs using standard numerical benchmarks in MATLAB.<\/a>\r\n

Parallel Computing Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Compare GPUs using standard numerical benchmarks in MATLAB.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDelta Sigma Toolbox<\/a>\r\n

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

High-level design and simulation of delta-sigma modulators.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nPlot (Big)<\/a>\r\n

Tucker McClure<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDynamic Mask Field Changing from Selected Pulldown Menu<\/a>\r\n

David Manegold<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Want to change your Mask fields based on a mask value when (pull down) when you select it?<\/p>\r\n

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

Brian Moore<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A MATLAB GUI for generating customizable multilayer spirographs.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nmulticomet<\/a>\r\n

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

Does the same thing as comet, but with multiple trajectories at once.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDynamical Systems with Applications using MATLAB<\/a>\r\n

Stephen Lynch<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Companion software for the book of the same name.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nImage Measurement Utility<\/a>\r\n

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

Interactive tool allowing the measurement of distances, radii, and angles in images.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nccc<\/a>\r\n

Chad Greene<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

close all; clear all; clc;<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nclr == clear all; close all; clc;<\/a>\r\n

Brenden Epps<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

clr clears your workspace and command window, so you can start fresh.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSave and load MATLAB \"projects\" in editor<\/a>\r\n

Kevin Bartlett<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Saves and loads MATLAB \"projects\" in editor (currently-open files, working directory, search path).<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nStartup MATLAB in last working directory<\/a>\r\n

Michelle Hirsch<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Directions for having MATLAB\u00ae start in the last working directory.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nAndroid Sensor support from MATLAB<\/a>\r\n

MathWorks Mobile Sensor Connectivity Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Use MATLAB to acquire sensor data from built-in sensors on your Android device.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nline_fewer_markers<\/a>\r\n

Massimo Ciacci<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

An alias of the LINE command, with additional control for markers, in number and location.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSchemaball<\/a>\r\n

Oleg Komarov<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Plot correlation matrix as a schemaball.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nColormaps compatible with red-green color perception deficiencies<\/a>\r\n

Matthias Geissbuehler<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Colormaps for displaying data compatible with red-green color perception deficiencies.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\ninpolyhedron - are points inside a triangulated volume?<\/a>\r\n

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

Test if 3d points are inside a mesh. Or, voxelise a mask from a surface. Mesh can be non-convex too!<\/p>\r\n

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Jan de Wilde<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Place text on borders of the figure, border of the subplots, on the inner-side or outer-side.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nWeb-browser viewable GUI animations of .PNGs, .GIFs, etc.<\/a>\r\n

Kevin Bartlett<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates javascript\/html GUI-driven animation of still images (GIFs, JPEGs, etc.).<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nregexpBuilder<\/a>\r\n

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

regexpBuilder is a GUI that aims to simplify the creation of regexps in MATLAB.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nvol3d v2<\/a>\r\n

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

3-d volume (voxel) rendering.<\/p>\r\n

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Stefan Slonevskiy<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

MATLAB tool for exporting data to PowerPoint 2007+ files without using COM-objects automation.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nTextZoomable for text that scales as you zoom<\/a>\r\n

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

Text that zooms as you zoom your plot, rather than staying at a fixed font size.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\ncloudPlot<\/a>\r\n

Daniel Armyr<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A function to plot the distribution of 2-dimensional data.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n3D Comet Plot<\/a>\r\n

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

3D Comet Plot with user specified tail length and line\/marker configuration.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nRootFinding Demo<\/a>\r\n

Teja Muppirala<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A demo of root-finding using Newton\u2019s Method.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nmatwho<\/a>\r\n

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

Quickly list the variables in the specified .MAT file.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nApp Builder for SimBiology Models<\/a>\r\n

Asawari Samant<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tool to automate the process of creating standalone, model-exploration apps for SimBiology model.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDownload Daily Data from Google and Yahoo! Finance<\/a>\r\n

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

Provides functions for getting data from both data sources as well as helper utility functions.<\/p>\r\n

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