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Matt Fig

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Personal Profile:: Matt holds a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a bachelor's degree in Physics. He is now employed at the Idaho National Lab, where he works in fuels characterization. His main work is to develop new material properties measurement techniques, for which he uses MATLAB daily. He enjoys his family, coding, and the great Idaho countryside.
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Professional Interests:: MATLAB, COMSOL, Thermal characterization, c++

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20 Jan 2012	MATLABTETRIS Another MATLAB version of the classic game, Tetris. Author: Matt Fig	tetris, gui, game, fun, graphics, patch	206	5	5.0 5.0 \| 3 ratings
13 Apr 2011	LINECMENU Utility for creating a standard uicontextmenu for line objects. Author: Matt Fig	uicontextmenu, uimenu, line, dualcolorplot, plot, utility	7	2	5.0 5.0 \| 1 rating
10 Sep 2010	RCUMSUMC RCUMSUM cumulative sum of elements, restarted after every zero. Author: Matt Fig	cumsum, cumprod	3	0
09 Sep 2010	COMBINATOR -combinations AND permutations Returns 1 of 4 different samplings on the set 1:N, taken K at a time. Author: Matt Fig	combinations, set, combinatorics, permutations, perms, nchoosek	63	16	5.0 5.0 \| 7 ratings
10 Jun 2010	CHECKVARS Checks for function masking by variables in an M-File. Author: Matt Fig	masking, mask, variables, function	2	1

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15 Jan 2012	MATLABTETRIS Another MATLAB version of the classic game, Tetris. Author: Matt Fig	Thanks for your comment Mingjing! I am surprised that the game is sluggish on your laptop, as I tested it on 3 laptops out of concern over its graphics-intensive nature. I guess my sample was too small! One of the goals in making the game was to be able to have everything in one file, which is why I didn't use an image (or any of the other approaches I could have). Now I wonder if I could created the image from repmatting a hard-coded matrix inside the file? I will look into this in the coming weeks when I get time, and see if it speeds things up at all. Thanks for the idea!
13 Jan 2012	Band matrix generation Generates a band matrix Author: Catalin Serban	Caitlin, why did you submit two identical files? Did you do this by mistake, perhaps? Also, you really should at least familiarize yourself with the ONES function in MATLAB, it would be most useful in your function...
01 Jul 2011	Choosse randomly number of elements from a vector Choosse randomly a number of elements from a vector. Randomly change the position of the vector Author: Dave Correa	Jan, you are absolutely correct. I made a mistake in understanding what this was supposed to do. Thanks for the catch. Good thing I didn't provide a rating!
30 Jun 2011	Choosse randomly number of elements from a vector Choosse randomly a number of elements from a vector. Randomly change the position of the vector Author: Dave Correa	Why not use the simpler: out = ini + ceil((fin-ini)*rand(1,num));
30 Jun 2011	sahil_tar sahil_tar Author: sahil	Please delete this and ask your question on MATLAB Answers. The FEX is not a place to ask questions like this...

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03 Feb 2012	41 Complete GUI Examples 41 working GUIs to read and learn. Author: Matt Fig	Sriharsha	Hi, i have two gui windows. i want to a push button in first GUI , such that when i click this push button, i want to make a panel visible in second GUI, which was initially set to invisible. Can any one help me to do this?
31 Jan 2012	41 Complete GUI Examples 41 working GUIs to read and learn. Author: Matt Fig	Julian	Awesome. Thanks Matt!
23 Jan 2012	41 Complete GUI Examples 41 working GUIs to read and learn. Author: Matt Fig	Yonathan	I work with the GUIDE tool I need to display a inputdlg before I close my GUI... 1.Where I need to define the closeRequestFcn set(gcf,'CloseRequestFcn',@my_closefcn)? 2. Where to write the callback? function my_closereq(src,evnt) .... ..... end
16 Jan 2012	41 Complete GUI Examples 41 working GUIs to read and learn. Author: Matt Fig	TAB
16 Jan 2012	MATLABTETRIS Another MATLAB version of the classic game, Tetris. Author: Matt Fig	Winthrop, David	Looks good, runs good. No problems. I think it is really amazing! Nice little EasterEgg in there too (wink-wink).

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Files Tagged by Matt				View all 1 - 5 of 75
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20 Jan 2012	MATLABTETRIS Another MATLAB version of the classic game, Tetris. Author: Matt Fig	tetris, gui, game, fun, graphics, patch	206	5	5.0 5.0 \| 3 ratings
24 Nov 2011	Plot and compare nice histograms by default Compares multiple sets of data elegantly. Set bins and axis bounds to be appropriate for the data. Author: Jonathan C. Lansey	histogram, bins, bin size, axis bounds, automatic, compare	86	8	4.85714 4.9 \| 7 ratings
20 Oct 2011	Create Healthy Looking Error Bars Plots nice error bars as the default. Can also top group plots with error bars. Author: Jonathan C. Lansey	bar graph, error bars, bars, standard error, errorbars, error	81	8	5.0 5.0 \| 4 ratings
16 Sep 2011	3D Surface Plots from Excel Data GUI Upload data from Excel and plot in 3D as a scatter plot, lsq curve fit, contour plot and others. Author: Christopher Rouxel	3d, gui, performance map, design, scatter plot, data import	82	0	5.0 5.0 \| 2 ratings
14 May 2011	Watermark Project (Watermarking) An application that can be used to hide "ascii text" or "images" into another image using watermark Author: Francesco Pizzo	image processing, information encryptin..., gui, self_rating, watermark, communications	85	4	5.0 5.0 \| 4 ratings

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11 Dec 2009		Bipolar Colormap Symmetric/diverging/bipolar cold-neutral-hot colormap Author: Ged Ridgway	colormap, color map, color scale, color code, signed data, visualization	11	7	5.0 5.0 \| 1 rating

Comments and Ratings Matching Matt's Watch List			1-5 of 7
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10 Mar 2010	Bipolar Colormap Symmetric/diverging/bipolar cold-neutral-hot colormap	Jody Klymak	I'd also take a look at: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17555-light-bartlein-color-maps	Comment only
08 Dec 2009	Bipolar Colormap Symmetric/diverging/bipolar cold-neutral-hot colormap	Ged Ridgway	Dear Oliver, thank you very much for your feedback. Regarding the flipping, bipolar takes an optional second argument which specifies the gray-level value of the neutral color, and the ends are actually automatically flipped around if you specify a whiter shade of pale gray. E.g. if you specify 1, you get blue-cyan-white-yellow-red. Personally, I don't think this looks as nice, but that is of course subjective. Regarding your other colormaps, I'm afraid I personally find the same perceptual issue with "bright" (purple bands above and below the pure blue) and with "pastel" (to a small extent but in several places). I really like your thermal and temp colormaps, however, I am particularly keen on having a neutral mid-gray in the centre of the map (which was the reason I focused on hicontrast), rather than white (as in temp) or red (as in thermal). I will play around with modifying CMRmap, thermal and temp, to see if I can find something I am really happy with... If you have any further suggestions, they would be much appreciated, thanks!	Comment only
08 Dec 2009	Bipolar Colormap Symmetric/diverging/bipolar cold-neutral-hot colormap	Oliver Woodford	Ged, real2rgb (id 23342) only linearizes a colormap's absolute gradient in luminance per color entry - they need to be monotonic to start with if you want monotonic output. It has several other monotonic colormaps (which can be linearized) other than hicontrast. Perhaps you'll find one you like. My thoughts on this colormap are that it could look better with the two ends flipped so that they converge on white instead of dark gray. Have you tried it?	Comment only
07 Dec 2009	Bipolar Colormap Symmetric/diverging/bipolar cold-neutral-hot colormap	Ged Ridgway	Dear "us", thank you for your suggestion! I'll make your modification in a future update.	Comment only
07 Dec 2009	Bipolar Colormap Symmetric/diverging/bipolar cold-neutral-hot colormap	Ged Ridgway	Dear Sjoerd, thank you very much for drawing my attention to Carey Rappaport's CMRmap. It turns out that my colormap is not currently suitable for conversion to grayscale. To some extent, it's actually rather difficult to get good visualisation of bipolar/signed data in grayscale anyway, but it would be nice to have a map that degraded more gracefully. I tried to find a bit more about the theory, but have so far failed. E.g. this site is otherwise very helpful, http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_learnMore.html but says "Differences in lightness should be preserved with sequential schemes" while "diverging schemes cannot be photocopied successfully." In other words, Dr Brewer doesn't attempt to make bipolar schemes with nice grayscale equivalents. I found ID 23342 from a comment on CMRmap, and have just tried it out. Unfortunately, its conversion of my colormap to a linear-gray version doesn't seem to work well; the result is non-monotonic in gray-level (at least when converted from a saved PNG using the Gimp) and additionally translates the neutral gray away from the origin. ID 23342 also has a colormap called hicontrast, with linear grayscale, but I don't really like this, as it seems perceptually non-monotonic in color to me, e.g. either side of cyan you can see a pair of pale green colors, which are (by construction) separated in gray-level, but not really in hue, similarly either side of red is a pair of similar magenta hues. I will try to look into this in more detail and provide an alternative map (necessarily without the user-definable neautral gray-level, as this will have to be at or very near to 0.5) that degrades better to grayscale in a future update... Thanks again for the heads-up!	Comment only