User:Anna Dwish
About Me
Hi :) My name is Anna, and I'm a big fan of mint tea, punk music, and rainy days. Hope you're having a lovely day!
Sleepy Music
Here's a couple of neat-o songs I really love:
- i exist
- they'll like me when i'm sick
- placeholder
- body electric
- ride
- jesus christ
- waiting for a friend
- i'm sorry about yesterday
- and also i'm really scared
Grand Challenge Article
NASA Explores Virtual Reality Applications, Kenny Walter, R&D Magazine, 25 August 2017, accessed 12 September 2017 (Grand Challenge)
Favorite MATLAB Demonstration
My favorite MATLAB demonstration was "Viewing a Penny" because of how the graphics appeared - especially in the pesudocolor plot. I would've never known that such a math-oriented programming language would be capable of producing something so artistic. This demonstration involves the pre-made PENNY.MAT file, which holds information about the various heights of a penny's surface on a 128 by 128 grid. The demonstration first showed how to display a contour map of the penny (similar to a topographic map of a geographical region) and then showed how to model the penny's height information with a pseudocolor plot. The pseudocolor plot displayed the penny with brightness proportional to its height, while the colormap version displayed the penny with respect to the Laplacian of its height in various locations. Finally, the demonstration showed how to produce a 3D surface plot of the penny, which was really cool to me because of all the applications this could have to virtually view different mechanical parts before producing them.
