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Quick directory navigation
OK, I'm breaking the number one rule that Doug and I set up for our submissions - I'm picking my own file. Hey, it's my...

21 years ago

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Making a splash
People have been making full-fledged applications in MATLAB for quite a while, and that is becoming even easier because the...

21 years ago

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Volume visualization
Sliceomatic was an early pick here at pick of the week. Here is another tool, Orthogonalslicer, that does a similar job, but...

21 years ago

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Using Java in MATLAB
This week's pick by Michael Kleder uses Java to determine if a number is prime. I liked this because it quietly makes use...

21 years ago

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Smooth animations in MATLAB
This is a great animated clock made in MATLAB, and I chose it for several reasons: 1) Tim made use of some new R14 language...

21 years ago

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UNPLOT
I just became a huge fan of Tobin Driscoll, for his submission of UNPLOT to MATLAB Central. And I swear it has nothing to...

21 years ago

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Colorbars for filled contours
This weeks pick adds very useful functionality for anybody who works with filled contour plots (as created by contourf)....

21 years ago

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Enhanced 3D display of data
3D displays of data can look very flat, which is why light sources are often added. Gordon has a different method for...

21 years ago

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Air to air combat simulation
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Quite a few of our customers are...

21 years ago

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Image map example
Michael Wunder has come up with a very cool way to make great-looking user interfaces in MATLAB. Instead of relying on...

22 years ago

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Hatched vs color
Sometimes old technology becomes new again. The other day someone was showing me their Blackberry device that has a low...

22 years ago

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List subfunctions in command window
Anybody who does much work with GUIDE is familiar with using files with large numbers of subfunctions. I'm a huge fan of the...

22 years ago

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Time stamping plots
For many of our customers the graph that gets produced at the end of a script is their entire output that will be printed...

22 years ago

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Enhanced data exploration interface
Paul Mennen's plt combines a lot of useful data exploration tools into a single, well-designed, plot explorer. Intended to...

22 years ago

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Animation of convolution
Convolution can be a difficult process to learn and visualize, so Laine decide to make an animation to show the process...

22 years ago

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Displaying a table in a figure
I'm often asked how to include a table of numbers in a figure. While it's possible to use an array of edit boxes, I've...

22 years ago

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MATLAB on an embedded processor
MATLAB is a great language, and our users always want to take it to the next level. In the latest release of MATLAB and...

22 years ago

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Cleve’s demos
Some of you may know that the first version of MATLAB was written by Cleve Moler. Cleve is still here at The MathWorks as...

22 years ago

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3-d Point selection
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Selection of a three dimensional...

22 years ago

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Talking MATLAB
Fahad Al Mahmood's Speak takes advantage of Microsoft Office's spoken word engine to make MATLAB talk. This brings me back...

22 years ago

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Surface plots from scatter data
I do a lot of seminars and talk to a lot of people about what they are trying to do in MATLAB. One of the more common...

22 years ago

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Instrument Drivers
You all know that Release 14 was just released (which will probably put me out of the File Exchange business since the new...

22 years ago

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Interactive Movie Player
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. OK, it's time for a confession. ...

22 years ago

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World’s greatest predictive tool
People do some fancy stuff with MATLAB to predict future events – from what the stock market will do next to determining if...

22 years ago

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Two dimensional histogram
The other day I was doing a Monte Carlo analysis where I had two independent varables and one scalar output. A good...

22 years ago

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Minimum of an entire matrix
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. Duane wrote the book on MATLAB, he...

22 years ago

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Automatic HTML Help Generation
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. I really like M2HTML, which...

22 years ago

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Browser shortcuts to useful MATLAB help
NoteThe file submission referenced in this post is no longer available on File Exchange. There are lots of ways to get help...

22 years ago

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Add horizontal and vertical lines
How many times have you done something like this? % BEGIN draw a horizontal line xMin = 0; xMax = 10; % the current extents...

22 years ago

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Octave analysis
Christophe Couvreur's Octave Toolbox has been a favorite of mine since the good old days of FTP file swapping. I'm an...

22 years ago