Codes maintained by Derek Dalle
This is a site used to host several of my favorite—or at least most useful—programs. While I would redirect interested users to my Bitbucket site for more details, these pages serve as a useful front page and a place to host files for users that are not interested in making changes to the code.
Below is a short description of each code that is on this site. Click on the header for any code to be taken to a more detailed description or a place to download the programs.
set_plot
High-quality MATLAB graphics tool
MATLAB has well-known and popular tools to create graphics, but the default appearance of the graphics has a few inadequacies. Fortunately, many of these problems can be overcome, but it requires using quite a few arcane commands. Alternatively, set_plot can do all of the formatting using a much-simplified syntax. In addition to turning standard graphics into journal-quality graphics in a single command, set_plot also provides some tools for changing the formatting of various aspects of a figure. It also includes html2rgb, which converts the colors listed at w3schools.com to a RGB format that MATLAB recognizes.
aiaa-pretty
LaTeX template for AIAA papers
Creating papers for AIAA conferences using LaTeX is a simple enough task, and there are a number of templates available to accomplish it. The purpose of aiaa-pretty is to modernize the template and provide a few more options. Among its advantages are automatically creating a PDF table of contents for easy navigation and some bug fixes relating to referencing subfloats.
thesis-umich
University of Michigan Ph.D. dissertation template
This is yet another LaTeX template for the Ph.D. thesis at the University of Michigan. It's as clean and simple to use as I could make it, and it fits my tastes much more than the alternatives. If you have a need for such a specific template, I hope you like it enough to use it! Instead of explaining the basic features, I'll just point you to the example PDF.
units
Extensive unit conversion package for MATLAB
