This is the first of a few blog posts about object measurements based on a concept called the Feret diameter, sometimes called the caliper diameter. The diagram below illustrates the concept. Place the object to be measured inside the jaws of a caliper, with the caliper oriented at a specified... read more >>

I'd like to invite everyone to check out the new Deep Learning blog that just launched today on MATLAB Central. ... read more >>

Before I dive into today's topic, I want to invite you to come back to the MATLAB Central Blogs page in a couple of weeks. Look for something new to appear related to deep learning.... read more >>

Today I want to tell you how and why I made these images:... read more >>

I saw a presentation last month that mentioned a user request to have the ability to customize regionprops. That is, a user wanted to be able to add their own measurement to regionprops.... read more >>

A MATLAB user recently contacted tech support with a question about the output of fft2. The user had a function, q(x,y), evaluated on an (x,y) grid. The grid evaluation produced a matrix that the user passed to fft2. The user's question: what are the spatial frequencies associated with the elements... read more >>

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a solver algorithm for the Eight Queens Problem. The post included diagrams like this one.... read more >>

On April 20, I wrote about an algorithm for solving the Eight Queens Problem. In this problem, the task is to place eight queens on a chessboard so that none of the queens is attacking any other queen. Here is one solution.... read more >>

At MathWorks, we almost never talk in detail about product features before they are released. That's why this week's Art of MATLAB blog caught my eye. Guest blogger Dave Bergstein describes in some detail how we expect support for string arrays to evolve in the future. If you do a lot of data analysis or text processing in MATLAB, it is worth your while to take a look at Dave's post.... read more >>

Today I want to tackle a classic algorithm puzzle known as the Eight Queens Problem. In this problem, your task is to arrange eight queens on a chessboard so that none of the queens is attacking any of the others. Here is one solution.... read more >>