{"id":8094,"date":"2016-12-30T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2018-09-14T06:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T10:45:46","slug":"looking-back-2016-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2016\/12\/30\/looking-back-2016-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2016 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow...2016. What a long, strange trip it's been.<\/p>

But it's over, and once again, without further ado: we close out the Pick-of-the-Week year with a review of our Picks of the year.<\/p>

You 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.<\/p>

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

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

Layout management objects for MATLAB GUIs, for the new graphics system introduced in R2014b<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nModel Obfuscation Tool<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Atsushi Ohashi<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Model Obfuscation tool<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n2D Wave Equation<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Interactive demo of the 2d wave equation.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nUsing Doxygen with MATLAB<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Extracts automatically comments from your Matlab .m files using Doxygen to generate documentation<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nappend_pdfs<\/tt><\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Append\/concatenate multiple PDF files into a single file using Ghostscript.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nArduino Blinking Heart Motion Sensor<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Ye Cheng<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A fun and simple project using Arduino Uno, PIR sensor and some LEDs.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDesign Oriented Trebuchet Model with SimMechanics<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Advanced trebuchet model that predicts dynamic performance based on design changes.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\"Bouncing Ball: Tutorial for ode45<\/tt> events\"<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Tutorial for event detection in Matlab - simulation of ball bouncing over hilly terrain.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nexport_search_path<\/tt><\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Allows the user to transfer your search path from an old MATLAB release to a new release<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nHarmonic Circles Animation<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Mehmet E. Yavuz<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Animation showing square wave synthesis using harmonics<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nclickableLegend<\/tt><\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

A legend with clickable strings that let you hide and show objects in a plot.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nBrocumentation Toolbox<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Dan Seal<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

MATLAB documentation for bros<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSubpixel Motion Estimation without Interpolation<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Stanley Chan<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A block matching motion estimation algorithm that achieves subpixel accuracy without interpolation<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\"SSH\/SFTP\/SCP For Matlab (v2)\"<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Improved Matlab interface for SSH2\/SFTP\/SCP (supports public key) using the Ganymed-SSH2 javalib.<\/p>\r\n

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

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

Quickly create publication-quality plots: automatic colors & subplots, stats, violin\/box plots, etc.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDeveloping Simulink Device Driver Blocks: Step-by-Step Guide and Examples<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Giampiero Campa<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Developing Simulink Device Driver Blocks: Step-By-Step Guide and Examples<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nCalling Shared Libraries from Simulink<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

This paper discusses several approaches for calling shared libraries from Simulink models<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nFlatten (Nested) Cell Arrays<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Yung-Yeh<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A helper function to flatten nested cell arrays<\/p>\r\n

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

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

Given a latitude and longitude, return the name of the nearest city<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nFloating point relational operator<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Compares between numerical arrays up to a certain precision.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nForbidden Donut<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Jerome Briot<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Favorite FEX contribution of Homer Simpson<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nJulia Sets (Live Editor Example)<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

This example file shows the capabilities of the Live Editor while exploring Julia Sets.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nVolumetric Data Explorer<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Adam Filion<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

App for exploring higher dimensional data using volumetric visualizations and animation.<\/p>\r\n

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

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

Prompts a username and password from a user and hides the password input by *******<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSkeleton3D<\/tt><\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Philip Kollmansberger<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Calculates the 3D skeleton of an arbitrary binary volume using parallel medial axis thinning.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nAlternative Box Plot<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Christopher Hummersone<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Draw a box plot with various display options<\/p>\r\n

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

Joe Hicklin<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Treemaps display data using the relative areas of nested rectangles.<\/p>\r\n

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

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

Acquire video and images from Kinect for Windows Sensor.<\/p>\r\n

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Damien Garcia<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

SMOOTHN allows automatized and robust smoothing in arbitrary dimension w\/wo missing values<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nQuestdlg Timer<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Az Nephi<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

questdlg timer<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nChebfun - Current Version<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Chebfun Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Numerical computation with functions<\/p>\r\n

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

Calculates numeric gradient using second-order difference formula for unevenly spaced data<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nTeaching Calculus with MATLAB<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

TCM Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Collection of interactive demos illustrating fundamental topics in calculus.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nbirthday cake<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Antonio Trujillo-Ortiz<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Draw a birthday cake with candles and best wishes.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\"Command-line peak fitter for time-series signals\"<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tom O'Haver<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Command-line peak fitter for time-series signals. Version 8.1, July 2016<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nUnit Testing C Code using MATLAB and MATLAB Coder<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Example files for unit testing C code using MATLAB and MATLAB Coder<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSunrise Sunset<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Meysam Mahooti<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Rising and setting times of Sun and Moon and twilight times<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nMusic Visualizer<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Plays a song and displays an accompanying visualization simultaneously<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nData Acquisition Tool<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Isaac Noh<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

This app allows a user to interactively configure\/control their data acquisition devices.<\/p>\r\n

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Cleve Moler<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Play individual hands of the card game, or simulate a session.<\/p>\r\n

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

Write a MATLAB figure to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nKinect and IMU data to Android App<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

In this example we send a fire extinguisher position and IMU data to an android app using Arduino.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDeep Learning Toolbox Model for AlexNet Network<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

MathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Pre-trained AlexNet network model for image classification<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nMATLAB File Association Fix<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Patrik Forssén<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Fixes trouble with MATLAB file associations in Windows<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nCreating and Populating a Simulink Dataset from Simulink model<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Stacey Gage<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A Simulink project with files to help create a Simulink Dataset and populate the signal data<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nTabbed Figure<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

A tabbed figure class to support navigating large data sets with many plots, tables, and controls.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nhourglass<\/tt><\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Tillmann Stuebler<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

This is an hourglass simulation.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nExpand wildcards for files and directory names<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Peter van den Biggelaar<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Expand wildcards for files and directory names<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nBase64 Image Encoder<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

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

Encode a MATLAB (R) figure or file on disk as a string in Base64<\/p>\r\n

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