Happy New Year!\u00a0 On New Year\u2019s Eve, it snowed for most of
\nthe day in Massachusetts.\u00a0 On New Year\u2019s Day, I went out to clear some snow
\nfrom my driveway.\u00a0 When I stopped for a rest this beautiful white canvas faced
\nme, and it reminded me of the Simulink canvas.\u00a0 I grabbed a stick and sketched
\nout a familiar model.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
(Snow drawings have horrible contrast, so I modified this Later in the day, I went sledding with my kids at a nearby This image doesn\u2019t do justice to the block diagram represented I also used IMTRANSFORM<\/a> Zooming using IMCROP<\/a> As you can tell, even when I\u2019m out playing in the snow with (I leave it to the reader to transform and crop this image Here is another example; an engineering student at Olin College<\/a> made a Simulink inspired pumpkin Picture credit: Jacob Getto, Olin College<\/p>\n Do you have a geeky engineering passion like me?\u00a0 How do you Happy New Year!\u00a0 On New Year\u2019s Eve, it snowed for most of
\nimage using IMADJUST<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\nhill above some sports fields.\u00a0 Again, I saw a beautiful, pristine canvas.\u00a0 I
\ncouldn\u2019t resist the opportunity to express system dynamics on such a large
\nscale, so, again I paced out a Simulink model.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nby my foot prints.\u00a0 I made a montage from a couple of my pictures and did some
\ncontrast correction with IMADJUST<\/a>.
\nHere is the result:<\/p>\n![\"Simulink](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2009Q1\/vdpsnowmontageadjusted_small.png\")
<\/p>\n
\nto project the image so it would look like an aerial photograph.<\/p>\n![\"Simulink](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2009Q1\/vdpsnowtall_small_shadow.png\")
<\/p>\n
\nand resizing with IMRESIZE<\/a>
\nproduces this final version of the snowfield block diagram.<\/p>\n![\"Simulink](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2009Q1\/vdpsnowprojected_small2_shadow.png\")
<\/p>\n
\nmy kids, I might also be thinking about Simulink.\u00a0 Most engineers I know have a
\npassion for their work.\u00a0 People who love the tools they use to do their work
\nexpress their passion in interesting ways.\u00a0 For example, have you ever seen a
\ncar with the license plate \u201cMATLAB\u201d?<\/p>\n![\"MATLAB](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2009Q1\/matlabcar_shadow.png\")
<\/p>\n
\ndown to just the license plate.)<\/p>\n
\ncarving in celebration of Halloween.\u00a0 \u00a0I found out about this thanks to Colin Zwiebel\u2019s post on the Olin
\nstudent blog. What a great place to find a P-I Control system!<\/p>\n![\"Simulink](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2009Q1\/simulink_pumpkin_getto_scary_shadow.png\")
<\/p>\n
\ndisplay your love of Simulink?\u00a0 Leave me a comment here<\/a> and send
\nme pictures<\/a> that show your passion for Simulink. \u00a0\u00a0I will ship the first five of you a MathWorks T-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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