Steve Eddins

History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 2: 1990, MATLAB 4, Handle Graphics, and the IMAGE object | Harmonic Notes MATLAB 4; Handle Graphics and its influence on modern MATLAB design; the original IMAGE object and its strengths and limitations; the first MATLAB default image.

New MATLAB blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 2: 1990, MATLAB 4, Handle Graphics, and the IMAGE object"

#matlab #imageprocessing

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History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 1: Before 1990 | Harmonic Notes A brief summary of the early years of digital image processing, and of early versions of MATLAB before 1990.

New blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 1: Before 1990"

A brief summary of the early years of digital image processing, and of early versions of MATLAB before 1990.

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#matlab

Mid-Phrase Brain Freeze | Harmonic Notes In a recent chamber music dress rehearsal, my opening phrase was a train wreck. Mental rehearsal before the performance was my fix.

New blog post: "Mid-Phrase Brain Freeze"

In a recent chamber music dress rehearsal, my opening phrase was a train wreck. Mental rehearsal before the performance was my fix.

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#frenchhorn

Motivations for Sharing Code | Harmonic Notes My thoughts on a MATLAB Discussions thread about reasons that researchers might benefit from actively sharing their code.

New MATLAB blog post: "Motivations for Sharing Code"

My thoughts on a MATLAB Discussions thread about reasons that researchers might benefit from actively sharing their code.

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Hazard Ahead: Dangerous Line Break | Harmonic Notes I started using a new symbol in my parts to help avoid trouble.

New horn blog post: "Hazard Ahead: Dangerous Line Break"

I started using a new symbol in my parts to help avoid trouble.

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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Website Changes (July 2025) | Harmonic Notes Website changes on July 19 affect appearance, content organization, mailing lists, RSS feeds, and comments. Mailing list subscribers and RSS feed users may see a repeat notification of some previously...

New blog post: "Website changes on July 19 affect appearance, content organization, mailing lists, RSS feeds, and comments. Mailing list subscribers and RSS feed users may see a repeat notification of some previously published posts."

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

They're booing Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center.

I suspect TeePublic is not going to approve the t-shirt design I just uploaded, but if they do, I'm buying 50 copies and giving them away.

Visualization of directed graph that represents a nested list of text labels

I wanted to turn a Markdown nested list into a directed graph in MATLAB. Here are some tips and tricks I learned for getting it done.

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The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and
commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post.

This is her third Pulitzer recognition.

I’m not catholic but I find this wildly offensive

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The Tool Builder's Gene (Update) I was fortunate to realize quickly that academia wasn't the best place for me and that I would be much happier at a place like MathWorks—because I have the gene.

In 2019, I wrote a MATLAB Central blog post called "The tool builder's gene (or how to get a job at MathWorks)."

I just shared this essay on my personal blog, along with a couple of updates.

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Horn-related gear close to my practice chair

New horn-related post: It's amazing how much horn-related gear is within just a few feet of my practice chair.

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Concord, New Hampshire, at the State House

#handsoff

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

A fragment of music with two notes marked using diamond shapes

Today's Harmonic Notes blog post continues the theme of finding useful ways to mark up your music.

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Good choice!

After writing a ~500 pages book in two versions for MATLAB and Python, I would like to offer a comparison from the point of view of a MATLAB user. #Geoscience

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Congratulations on the publication of the 6th edition of MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences, Martin!

Here are a couple of updated MathWorks numbers for your MATLAB - Python comparison table: 6,500 staff members, $1.25 billion annual revenue. Source: www.mathworks.com/company.html

IMVIEW v2 My new MATLAB image display function, imview, has been updated and is ready for wide use.

My highly opinionated thoughts about MATLAB image display, including an update to my function imview, which I plan to use instead of imshow.

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I held onto my Washington Post subscription longer than I should have, I guess, but now I have cancelled it. I have zero interest in some billionaire techbro’s self-serving notions about libertarianism.

If you want to understand how we got here, you have to understand Christian Nationalism. It's the permission structure that justifies all of this harm and hate in the minds of so many Americans. Here's a reading list to get you started: bookshop.org/lists/unders...