{"id":3863,"date":"2019-11-11T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:22:12","slug":"guess-the-functions-and-get-a-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2019\/11\/11\/guess-the-functions-and-get-a-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess the functions and get a t-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nOf all the MATLAB or MathWorks toolbox functions that have been mentioned in this blog since 2006, <tt>imshow<\/tt> and <tt>imread<\/tt> have appeared the most. As in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2019\/11\/04\/how-to-display-images-with-bilinear-interpolation-and-antialiasing\/\">last week's post<\/a>, they often appear together, right at the beginning:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/imread-imshow-screenshot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3861\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/imread-imshow-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nWhen I say they have \"appeared the most,\" I am counting each function once for each blog post in which it has been used or mentioned.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nI'll send a MATLAB t-shirt to the first two people who can name another function in the top five. Make your guesses in the comments. One guess per person, please.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<strong>UPDATE 13-Nov-2019<\/strong>: Since one person contributed two guesses that were both in the top five, possibly taking away someone else's guess, I'm awarding three t-shirts. Winners:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Alfoil (plot, tied for #3-4)<\/li>\r\n<li>Oliver M\u00f6nnich (hold, #5)<\/li>\r\n<li>Pat Yuun (size, #6)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nGuesses (as of 13-Nov-2019 09:15 (America\/New York time):\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>plot, tied for #3-4<\/li>\r\n<li>title (guessed but disqualified), tied for #3-4<\/li>\r\n<li>hold, #5<\/li>\r\n<li>size, #6<\/li>\r\n<li>axis, #7<\/li>\r\n<li>numel, tied for #9-10<\/li>\r\n<li>imresize, #19<\/li>\r\n<li>im2bw, tied for #27-29<\/li>\r\n<li>imfilter, tied for #37-43<\/li>\r\n<li>im2double, tied for #37-43<\/li>\r\n<li>imfilter, tied #44-53<\/li>\r\n<li>imwrite, tied for #44-53<\/li>\r\n<li>sum, tied for #54-58<\/li>\r\n<li>fft, tied for #59-63<\/li>\r\n<li>rgb2gray, tied for #64-65<\/li>\r\n<li>mean, tied for #66-68<\/li>\r\n<li>imagesc, tied for #113-128<\/li>\r\n<li>clear, tied for #141-178<\/li>\r\n<li>squeeze, tied for #234-328<\/li>\r\n<li>blkproc, tied for #329-618<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nGreat job everybody! Thanks for giving a try. This was fun; I'll have to think up another contest soon.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/imread-imshow-screenshot.png\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div><p>\r\nOf all the MATLAB or MathWorks toolbox functions that have been mentioned in this blog since 2006, imshow and imread have appeared the most. As in last week's post, they often appear together,... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2019\/11\/11\/guess-the-functions-and-get-a-t-shirt\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}