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Tucker McClure

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The MathWorks, Inc.
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I'm an aerospace engineer and worked on air and space vehicle guidance, navigation, and control systems for four years. My work was so rapidly accelerated with tools from The MathWorks that I finally joined with the company to help others advance their own scientific and engineering endeavors.

On the side, I create music (sometimes with MATLAB) and published an album which is available from any major online service like Pandora.

Professional Interests:
autonomy, guidance, control, aerospace, machine learning, sound synthesis, music, optimization, emergent behavior

 

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25 Apr 2013 Screenshot Table Breakpoint Optimization A set of tools for finding the best way to reduce the size of a table. Author: Tucker McClure optimization, breakpoints, tables, fitting 38 0
09 Apr 2013 Screenshot Fetch (Big) Fetch command useful for SELECT queries on large data sets. Author: Tucker McClure fetch, database, query, select, big data, large data 9 4
15 Mar 2013 Screenshot Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure big data, line plot reducer, line plot, pick of the week, potw 126 4
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4.7 | 7 ratings
04 Feb 2013 Screenshot Functional Programming Constructs A set of files for treating many operations, like "if", "for", and even "()", as functions. Author: Tucker McClure functional programmin..., anonymous function, function handle, anonymous conditional, anonymous loop 22 5
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5.0 | 6 ratings
08 Jan 2013 Screenshot Automatic Terrain Generation A set a tools for generating artificial terrain and other rough phenomena mapped over a 2D surface. Author: Tucker McClure terrain, landscape, mapping, mandelbrot, fractal, fractional 52 0
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24 Jun 2013 Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure

Excellent point, dberm22.

Kelly, good suggestions. Plotting detailed coastlines would be a great use case for improvement! In the meantime, if you're displaying landmasses with patches, do you know about reducepatch? This could be used (pre-rendering) for multiple levels of fidelity.

Thanks to all for the ratings!

15 Mar 2013 Numerical Inverse Laplace Transform Numerical approximation of the inverse Laplace transform for use with any function defined in "s". Author: Tucker McClure

Hi Mohamed,

No, this is for continuous time only. However, Dr. Dan Ellis of Columbia University has an example of a numerical inverse z-transform written in MATLAB located here: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/e4810/matlab/s10/html/eval_z_transf.html

Note that this type of inversion is notoriously tricky to do numerically, as it requires very precise numbers. Working with the Symbolic Toolbox allows you to request arbitrary precision (e.g., 64 digits of precision).

Hope that helps!

- Tucker

13 Mar 2013 Functional Programming Constructs A set of files for treating many operations, like "if", "for", and even "()", as functions. Author: Tucker McClure

Hey, thanks for all the good feedback everyone. I appreciate your taking the time to leave a rating!
18 Jan 2013 Figure control widget Intuitive manipulation of a figure using key and mouse gestures Author: Oliver Woodford

Smooth and easy to use. I like that the right button pans.
09 Jan 2013 Device Drivers Developing Simulink Device Driver Blocks: Step-By-Step Guide and Examples Author: Giampiero Campa

This is a good introduction to making all the device code I need inside blocks so that I can just drag and drop blocks and get all the processor-specific code. Say I need to add a new encoder. Copy and paste the block and change the pin numbers. Done. Thanks, Giampiero!
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24 Jun 2013 Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure McClure, Tucker

Excellent point, dberm22.

Kelly, good suggestions. Plotting detailed coastlines would be a great use case for improvement! In the meantime, if you're displaying landmasses with patches, do you know about reducepatch? This could be used (pre-rendering) for multiple levels of fidelity.

Thanks to all for the ratings!

24 Jun 2013 Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure dberm22

I did my own testing on this for speed, and at first I was tempted to give this 1 star because the tic-toc results show that reduce_plot() takes twice as long to create the plot than the regular plot() does. Don't be fooled by this! tic-toc does not take into account how long it takes to show the plot on the screen, for which reduce_plot() is extremely efficient. Also, with the such large amount of numbers I was using, zooming was rendered impossible with the normal plot() function. reduce_plot() was a life-saver in those scenarios.

plot() = 1.66s (create plot) + 7.54s (show on screen) = 9s total (& cannot zoom)
reduce_plot = 3.65s (create plot) + .8s (show on screen) = 4.45s total + .7s (zooming) = priceless
18 Jun 2013 Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure Kearney, Kelly

Very useful function. However, it currently only works if your data describes a function (in the mathematical sense of one y per x). It would be great if it could be extended to work when the y axis is the independent variable, or for lines defining polygons (for example, I originally stumbled on this looking for a more efficient way to plot high-resolution coastlines while allowing lots of efficient zooming and panning).
12 Jun 2013 Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure Jorge

07 Jun 2013 Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure Shoelson, Brett

Awesome!
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25 Apr 2013 Screenshot Table Breakpoint Optimization A set of tools for finding the best way to reduce the size of a table. Author: Tucker McClure optimization, breakpoints, tables, fitting 38 0
09 Apr 2013 Screenshot Fetch (Big) Fetch command useful for SELECT queries on large data sets. Author: Tucker McClure fetch, database, query, select, big data, large data 9 4
15 Mar 2013 Screenshot Plot (Big) Makes MATLAB's line plots much faster. Author: Tucker McClure big data, line plot reducer, line plot, pick of the week, potw 126 4
  • 4.71429
4.7 | 7 ratings
04 Feb 2013 Screenshot Functional Programming Constructs A set of files for treating many operations, like "if", "for", and even "()", as functions. Author: Tucker McClure functional programmin..., anonymous function, function handle, anonymous conditional, anonymous loop 22 5
  • 5.0
5.0 | 6 ratings
08 Jan 2013 Screenshot Automatic Terrain Generation A set a tools for generating artificial terrain and other rough phenomena mapped over a 2D surface. Author: Tucker McClure terrain, landscape, mapping, mandelbrot, fractal, fractional 52 0

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