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Stop it!
Sometimes you just know you are going to want to break out of a loop in MATLAB, but ctrl-C is not what you are looking for...
20 years ago
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Dynamic plot zooming
Another pick from our special guest John D'Errico: In my travels around the file exchange, every once in a while I trip...
20 years ago
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Data Acquisition from Word?
Who’d have thought that you could acquire data from test hardware from directly within a Microsoft Word document? Who’d have...
20 years ago
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Apply a function to files
Thanks again to John D’Errico for giving Scott an extended break … Following the advent of a more sophisticated cellfun in...
20 years ago
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Congrats to the winner
Claudio Gelmi was the first person to answer my trivia question from last week. There were many ‘interesting’ answers about...
20 years ago
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Rotate a Picture GUI
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. I am a big fan of wrapping up...
20 years ago
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What time is it?
A common exercise for new hires at The MathWorks is to program a clock in MATLAB. By providing little to no specific...
20 years ago
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PLOTREGION
Here’s another entry from our guest picker, John D’Errico, as Doug and I enjoy another week relaxing … Have you ever wanted...
20 years ago
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Wildcard WHICH
This is a very exciting week for Scott and Doug’s POTW – we get to take the week off, to make room for a pick from our very...
20 years ago
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3D Navigation
While MATLAB has always led the pack for visualizing multidimensional data sets, I've got to admit that its support for...
20 years ago
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Merry Christmas
A beautiful submission from Marc Lätzel to end the year: MERRY…
20 years ago
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Laser Tracking
Last week we found that a good way to get Pick of the Week was to post something I needed on Wednesday when I normally look...
20 years ago
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Unique Filenames and a Repick
I like FREENAME as a way to generate a unique file name to add to a series of files in a directory. I have reinvented this...
20 years ago
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Dealing with Ginormous Data
Dealing with large data set is like juggling. How? Well, when you juggle three things, people are amused but pretty quickly...
20 years ago
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Default Docked Figures
I just wanted to pass along a small tip that you might find useful. If you’ve become as big of a fan of docked figures as I...
20 years ago
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Get In Units
How many times have you written code that looks like this, just to find the position of a graphics object in something other...
20 years ago
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Too much time to kill?
Have you ever sat around asking yourself if it would be possible to draw flags of the world's nations just using the patch...
20 years ago
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Digitize Scanned Data
In my old job, I occasionally needed to analyze data that I only had access to in printouts. I hoped that somebody had...
20 years ago
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Beat Counter
I've spent a surprising amount of time calculating the BPM (Beats per Minute, or tempo) of songs. I would always use a...
20 years ago
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Figures Stay on Top
Figure windows are the eyes that you look at your data with. However, if you are iterating on a graph, every time you type...
20 years ago
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Tip: Using HTML in the Command Window for Useful Error Messages
Doug and I are taking a slight departure from our usual format this week, with a couple of MATLAB programming tips. Doug...
20 years ago
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GUIDE Video Part Two
It has taken me a long time, but I have finally produced the second in what I hope will become a series of videos about how...
20 years ago
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Handle Graphics Filtering
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Duane Hanselman looks too young in...
20 years ago
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Rubik’s Cube + New Programming Features
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Our loyal readers have probably...
20 years ago
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Sudoku!
Have you heard of Sudoku puzzles? I hadn't until a few weeks ago, when a friend of mine was solving ones from the Boston...
20 years ago
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Flip Arrays
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. I love small, simple, useful...
21 years ago
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Read and Write MP3s
I can't believe it took me this long to find Alfredo Fernandez's MP3WRITE and MP3READ. MATLAB users have been asking me for...
21 years ago
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Survival of the Fittest
This week's pick is something I would expect my more whimsical partner, Scott, to have picked. But since he has not made a...
21 years ago
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Will code for food (or free)
Everyone, I want to say hello to all of our new visitors that heard about us from the article in Design News. I am going to...
21 years ago
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Value of all data series shown at once
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Data cursors are newly supported...
21 years ago