{"id":6734,"date":"2021-10-04T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6734"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T11:08:12","slug":"matlab-mini-hack-no-matlab-license-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6734","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB mini hack – No MATLAB license required"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MATLAB community site, MATLAB Central<\/a>, is celebrating its 20th anniversary<\/a> with a coding competition where the only aim is to make an interesting image with under 280 characters of code. The 280 character limit ensures that the resulting code is tweetable.\u00a0 There are a couple of things I really like about the format of this competition, other than the obvious fact that the only aim is to make something pretty!<\/p>\n

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  1. No MATLAB license is required! Sign up for a free MathWorks account and away you go.\u00a0 You can edit and run code in the browser.<\/li>\n
  2. Stealing<\/del> reusing other people’s code is actively encouraged! The competition calls it remixing but GitHub users will recognize it as forking.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here’s an example.\u00a0 I wrote a piece of code<\/a> to render the Sierpi\u0144ski triangle – Wikipedia<\/a> using a simple random algorithm called the Chaos game.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    This is about as simple as the Chaos game gets and there are many things that could be done to produce a different image.\u00a0 As you can see from the Remix tree<\/strong> on the right hand side, I’ve already done one of them by changing a from 3 to 4 and adding some extra code to ensure that the same vertex doesn’t get chosen twice.\u00a0 \u00a0This is result:<\/p>\n

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    Someone else can now come along, hit the remix button and edit the code to produce something different again.\u00a0 \u00a0Some things you might want to try for the chaos game include<\/p>\n