In order to display text in a processing applet or sketch, one needs to first create a font to use with your sketch. Select Tools > Create Font… from the menu. The dialogue box shown below will appear (Mac OS X version of IDE) select the font and font size and specify the name of

The extension EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript and is my favorite filetype for graphics and figures I produce using applications like Illustrator, Inkscape, and MATLAB. Here is how to insert EPS figures into a LaTex document. First you have to use the graphicx package so insert the following after the \documentclass tag and before the

Below is code demonstrating how to typeset matrices in LaTeX using the array environment. \begin{displaymath} Q = \left( \begin{array}{ccc} q_{11} & q_{12} & q_{13} \\ q_{21} & q_{22} & q_{23} \\ q_{31} & q_{32} & q_{33} \\ \end{array} \right) \end{displaymath} The code generates a three column matrix with the contents of each column centered ({ccc}).

On one warm spring afternoon during grad school when I should have been outside enjoying nature, I stayed in the lab and wrote the following MATLAB script. It will take any 8-bit RGB image and convert it to colored HTML text; any text. As an example of its application I have emblazoned my favorite positronic

For a recent project one of my research students needed to generate exponentially distributed random numbers in MATLAB. The Statistics Toolbox has a built-in function to do this, but I don’t have a license for this toolbox. Below is the code we wrote. It performs a log transformation to convert a uniformly distributed random number