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dinob0t / valentinesDay.m

Last active August 29, 2015 13:56

A Valentine's Day inspired function to plot concentric rainbow love hearts.

	function valentinesDay(figureHandle, heartNumber)
	%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
	% Win the affections of any geek on Valentine's Day with this MATLAB %
	% script to generate and plot a set of concentric rainbow love hearts. %
	% %
	% INPUT %
	% figureHandle : A handle to the figure in which the plotting is to be %
	% done %
	% heartNumber: The number of colour steps and hearts to plot (~100 %
	% looks nice) %

dinob0t / cracklePop.m

Created February 18, 2014 10:26

A faster CracklePop code

	clear all
	clc
	fasterTic = tic;

	crackleString = 'Crackle';
	popString = 'Pop';
	cracklePopString = 'CracklePop';

	numberArray = (1:n);
	stringArrayColSize = max([length(n) length(crackleString) ...

dinob0t / points_on_sphere

Last active February 24, 2023 16:37

Generates evenly distributed points on the surface of a sphere

	"""
	To generate 'num' points on a sphere of radius 'r' centred on the origin
	- Random placement involves randomly chosen points for 'z' and 'phi'
	- Regular placement involves chosing points such that there one point per d_area

	References:
	Deserno, 2004, How to generate equidistributed points on the surface of a sphere
	http://www.cmu.edu/biolphys/deserno/pdf/sphere_equi.pdf
	"""

dinob0t / places_coffee_map.html

Last active August 29, 2015 14:02

dinob0t / nyc_boroughs.json

Created June 13, 2014 21:24