Results for
- 500+ entries and 5,000+ votes created in the Mini Hack 2022 contest.
- 100,000+ solutions submitted in Cody 10th Anniversary contest
- 2,000+ participants in both contests
- Our Top 3:
- Clever use of Charts:
- Things we still loved:
- Tim , entry: Orchid,
- Shanshan Wang , entry: Colorful butterfly
- Tim Davis, entry: seashell
- Jenny Bosten, entry: Galaxy, category: space
- Paul Villain, entry: modfun spiral, category: colorful
- Brandon Caasenbrood, entry: Beauty of Discrete-Time Attractors, category: black & white
- Anton Kogios, entry: Parallel Lines?, category: illusion
- The top 3 players for solving the most problems in week 3 are Christian Schröder, Marco Fuscà, and Stefan Abendroth, Congratulations! Each of you won an Amazon gift card.
- As long as you participate, you have the opportunity to win MathWorks T-shirts. Week 3 lucky winners are Luffy Wangand Augusto Mazzei.
- Week 4’s new category is holiday! Halloween is around the corner. What holidays are you celebrating?
- You are able to leverage Signal Processing Toolbox in your entry.
- Are you smart than a MathWorker? Challenge yourself by solving our Week 4 special problem group: Are You Smarter Than a MathWorker?
- Vote on entries you like from the Mini Hack contest
- Solve Cody problems in the Cody 10th contest
- Create or remix entries in the Mini Hack contest
- Stewart Thomas, Lunar Shadows, category: space
- Teodo, NASA's DART Dimorphos Impact, category: space
- Simon Thor, Starry night, category: space
- Abdullah Caliskan, spacetime, category: space
- MvLevi, Personlized Lyapunov Fractal, category: File Exchange
- KARUPPASAMYPANDIYAN M, Moon View at MATropolis!, category: File Exchange
- Jan Studnicka, Butterfly, category: animal
- Brandon Caasenbrood, Periodic Minimal Surface, category: 3d
- Basil Imoberdorf, Zoom of Fractal action #3, category: fractals
- Pink_panther, Seaweed on Pandora, category: nature
- The top 3 players for solving most problems in week 2 are Mohammed, Armando Longobardi, and Stefan Abendroth, Congratulations! Each of you won an Amazon gift card.
- You don’t need to be an expert or spend tons of time to win! As long as you participate, you have the opportunity to win MathWorks T-shirts. Week 2 lucky winners are Dylan Baker and Takumi.
- Week 3’s new category is nature! We look forward to seeing more nature-themed creative entries from you!
- You are able to leverage up to 2 File Exchange submissions in your code.
- Week 3 special problem group is Programming Constructs. Have fun!
- Pink_panther, entry: Let's Go Fruity: Strawberry, category: File Exchange
- Lateef Adewale Kareem, entry: Umbrella, category: File Exchange (nice use of your own File Exchange entry)
- Teodo, entry: Shock wave, category: creative
- Basil Imoberdorf, entry: Colorful Fibonacci Scatter Spiral, category: colorful
- Stefan Abendroth, entry: Seahorse, category: abstract
- Paul Villain, entry: 102 mod 500, category: intricate
- The top 3 players for solving most problems in week 1 are Mohammed, Stefan Abendroth, and Hans Bourgeois. Congratulations! Each of you won an Amazon gift card.
- You don’t need to be an expert or spend tons of time to win! As long as you participate, you have the opportunity to win MathWorks T-shirts. Week 1 lucky winners are Meredith Reid and KARUPPASAMYPANDIYAN M.
- Voting started. Cast your votes on your favorite images. Help us show the world the beauty of mathematics by sharing your work with your friends, classmates, or colleagues.
- Toolboxes unlocked. You are able to leverage the Image Processing Toolbox to generate even more interesting images. We will award the best entries leveraging the Image Processing Toolbox.
- Week 2 special problem group published. Check out MATLAB Fundamentals - Plotting and Visualization. Will you be able to finish the group in week 2?
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In the past 2 months, we had a lot of fun together playing in the two contests. To make future contests better and more appealing to you, we created a 1-minute survey to understand your experience.
Your feedback is critical to us. Thank you in advance and hope to see you in 2022!
After 7 weeks of fun, the MATLAB Central community 20th anniversary contests have concluded! Together, we shared the art of MATLAB and contributed to the battle against the global pandemic. See the fantastic stats below.
- 1,700 entries created and 24,000 votes cast in MATLAB Mini Hack
- 6,300 tasks completed in Treasure Hunt
- $17,000 raised for Direct Relief
MATLAB Mini Hack Winners - Week 4
In Week 4, we invited the MATLAB Graphics team to help judge the entries. As the authors of the MATLAB functions used in every entry, they made sure every entry selected used a unique graphics function or technique from the other winners. Here are their choices:
1. Umbrellas by Shanshan Wang
Comment: Cool use of 'swarmchart' to make art from distributions; Only use of one of our newest graphics functions
2. Happy Sheep by Victoria
Comment: Cute!
3. Alien Giant by Jenny Bosten
Comment: Original idea, well textured, and efficient code
4. 3D Ultrasound by Adam Danz
Comment: Replicate source material very well. Effective use of lighting and material. Overall, impressive to produce this image given the limitation
5. Sunset in the Savanna by Sebastian Kraemer
Comment: Looks cool! Nice mix of 'image', 'fill' and 'scatter' commands.
6. Night Flight by Ratul Das
Comment: original; clever use of 'rectangle'
7. Lantern #2 by Tim
Comment: Nice use of 'getframe' to create a texture for 'surf' for a compelling picture
8. Geometric Design (6) by Daniel Pereira
Comment: Looks like some walls at MathWorks
9. Rosette 1313 by Alex P
Comment: Looks cool! Nice use of 'pcolor'
10. Mandelbrot contour by Sumihiro
Comment: Best use of contour!
11. Aim High by Murty PLN
Comment: Largest number of unique graphics objects for the Mini Hack (plot, patch,stairs,stem,text)
In the spirit of Mini Hack, the MATLAB Graphics team also created several cool graphs about the contest. Facing a similar space limit, I have picked only 2.
Bonus Prize Winners - Week 4
Congratulations to our 5 winners for their dual participation in the Treasure Hunt and the MATLAB Mini Hack. Yogiraj Bhagavatula, Pramod Devireddy, Devika U, FruitsLord, and Augusto Mazzei.
Lucky voters - Week 4
Congratulations to the lucky voters who cast the 12000th vote (Gordg Garin), 12500th vote (Eder Esteban Reyes), 13000th vote (Peram Balakrishna), 13500th vote (Emerson Nithiyaraj), 14000th vote(Sekar Naai), 14500th vote (Arika Amasarao), 15000th vote (Nikita Yakovlev), 15500th vote (Kesava Rao), and 16000th vote (Kundi Chandra Sekhar).
Grant Prize Winners
Finally, after validating entries and votes, we have picked the grand prize winners. We appreciate the time and effort you spent and the awesome entries you created. Huge congratulations!
1. Top 10 Authors of most voted entries
Each author will receive 5 customized T-shirts with the winning image and your name on the back of the T-shirts. You can choose the sizes and share them with your family or friends.
- Ciro Bermudez
- Jenny Bosten
- Adam Danz
- Jr
- Maximilian Schönau
- KSSV
- Dr Raveendranathan K C
- taoizm
- Sebastian Kraemer
- Victoria
2. Top 10 Authors with most total votes
Top 10 contestants on the leaderboard will each get an Amazon gift card. The top 3 winners on the leaderboard will also earn special virtual badges.
- Ciro Bermudez
- KSSV
- Juan Villacrés
- Murty PLN
- Pink_panther
- Jenny Bosten
- KARUPPASAMYPANDIYAN M
- Jr
- Adam Danz
- Victoria
On behalf of the MATLAB Central community team, we thank you for joining our celebration of the MATLAB Central community’s 20th anniversary with us in the past 7 weeks. We hope you enjoyed these contests and look forward to seeing you in next year’s contests. Question: “What contests would you like to see next?”
In Week 3, we passed several amazing milestones! 1,000 Participants in the Treasure Hunt , 1,000 ENTRIES and 10,000 votes in the MATLAB Mini Hack , and $10,000 charity donation from both contests! I recommend you read Ned Gulley’s recent blog post , which is a fantastic summary of the contest highlights.
During the last week of this contest, we strongly encourage you to inspire your colleagues, classmates, or friends to participate by either VOTING or CREATING entries. To add some fun, we will give out a T-shirt to LUCKY voters who cast:
- The 12000th vote
- The 12500th vote
- The 13000th vote
- The 13500th vote
- The 14000th vote
- The 14500th vote
- The 15000th vote
- The 15500th vote
- The 16000th vote
MATLAB Mini Hack Winners - Week 3
We’ve received many creative entries for our new categories. Congratulations to the winners! Each of you won a special edition T-shirt:
Greg, entry: better Christmas tree , category: Holidays
Ratul Das, entry: To All Pepperoni Lovers , category: Food
Peter Stampfli, entry: Louis V , category: Fractals
Adrien Leygue, entry: Stained Glass membrane , category: MathWorks Logo
Spencer Miesner, entry: ~Breathe~ , category: Album Cover
Stewart Thomas, entry: The only QR code you ever need , category: Black & White
Sebastian Kraemer, entry: sun , category: 3D
Jenny Bosten, entry: The joys of spring , category: Plant
Adam Danz, entry: MATropolis rooftop view , category: Illustration
Eric Ogier, entry: UFO , category: Fun
Simon Thor, entry: Mandelbrot in 52 characters , category: Concise
Tim, entry: Low Tide , category: Realism
Bonus Prize Winners - Week 3
We are giving out additional giveaways to participants of both the Treasure Hunt and the MATLAB Mini Hack . Congratulations to our 5 winners. Each of you has also won a special edition T-shirt.
- Teodo
- Dyuman Joshi
- Shanshan Wang
- Nirvik Sinha
- Felipe Torres
Week 4
After the contest ends, we need additional time to validate entries for Grand Prize and Weekly Prize. The winners are expected to be announced within a couple of days after the contest ends. Thank you in advance for your patience.
In Week 2, the contest entered a new phase – the voting started! As of today, 6000+ votes have been cast on almost 1000 entries in the GALLERY! As a result, YOU raised $5000+ for Direct Relief in addition to the $2400 raised via the Treasure Hunt contest! We encourage you to continue sharing the contest to inspire others to participate by either voting or creating new entries so we can donate even more!
MATLAB Mini Hack Winners - Week 2
I won’t say judging is getting easier in Week 2 - amazing entries keep coming in every day. Congratulations to the winners! Each of you has won a special edition T-shirt.
- Jenny Bosten, entry: Lake view to the West, category: Realism
- Jan Orwat, entry: Mannheim Colors Variation, category: Fun
- Juan Villacrés, entry: Rocket , category: Print Art
- Roderick La Foy, entry: Numerical Phoenix, category: Abstract
- Johan Pelloux-Prayer, entry: Stained glass, category: Colorful
- Brandon Caasenbrood, entry: The Aizawa's Attractor, category: 3D
- Tucker Downs, entry: Buddahbrot, category: Black & White
- Alberto Cuadra Lara, entry: Sunflower v1, category: Plants
- elkman, entry: City sunrise, category: Illustration
- Dr Raveendranathan K C, entry: A fully connected network of systems, category: Widest Remix Tree
- AKHILA GOUDA, entry: Chess board, category: Deepest Remix Tree
Bonus Prize Winners - Week 2
We are giving out additional giveaways to participants of both the Treasure Hunt and the MATLAB Mini Hack . Congratulations to our 5 winners. Each of you has also won a special edition T-shirt.
- Simon Thor
- Eric Ogier
- David Hill
- Lyes Demri
- Highphi
What’s new in Week 3?
In Week 3, we will add several new categories in which we hope to see more creative entries:
- Holidays
- Album covers
- Food & Drinks
- MathWorks logo
- Fractals
In just one week, 500+ amazing entries were created. Math rocks and you rock!
Help us show the world the beauty of mathematics by sharing your work with your friends, classmates, or colleagues. You can also help fight the global pandemic by voting. For each vote, MathWorks will donate $1 to Direct Relief. See the Voting FAQs below for details.
MATLAB Mini Hack Winners - Week 1
Let’s start by saying: your awesome work made our judging VERY HARD! We came up with several categories with one winner each. Congratulations to the winners! Each of you won a special edition T-shirt:
- Adam Danz, entry: pale blue dot , category: Astronomy
- taozim, entry: Collatz Feather , category: Print Art
- Jr, entry: Hi :) , category: 3D Art
- Pink_panther, entry: Guarding Ape of the Math Jungle 1 , category: Animals
- Adrien Leygue, entry: random cut in a d-dimensional checkerboard, category: Black & White
- Barath Narayanan, entry: Julia Set Animation , category: Colorful
- Maximilian Schönau, entry: plot Dark Side , category: Illustration
- Sebastian Kraemer, entry: Cherry blossom tree , category:Plants
- Peter Stampfli, entry: broken inversions , category: deepest remix tree (tie)
- sandeep singh chauhan, entry: BLACK ORCHID, category: deepest remix tree (tie)
- KSSV, entry: I LOVE Matlab, category: widest remix tree
Bonus Prize Winners - Week 1
As we announced last week, we are giving additional giveaways to participants of both the Treasure Hunt contest and the MATLAB Mini Hack contest . Congratulations to our 5 winners. Each of you also won a special edition T-shirt
- Jan Orwat
- warnerchang
- Davide OLIVIERI
- Daniel Niblett
- KARUPPASAMYPANDIYAN M
Voting FAQs:
Q1: Who can vote?
Anyone with a MathWorks account can vote.
Q2: How many times can I vote?
There here is no limit to the number of votes you can cast. Vote for as many entries as you like (one vote per entry).
Q3: How do my votes increase MathWorks’ charity donation?
For every vote an entry gets, we will donate $1 to Direct Relief with a maximum amount of $20 donated per entry. MathWorks will donate up to a maximum of $20,000 based on the combined totals raised by task participation in the Treasure Hunt and voting in the MATLAB Mini Hack .
Q4. How do I win?
At the end of the contest, the top 10 participants on the leaderboard will each get an Amazon gift card and the top 3 will earn special badges. The 10 highest voted entries will win 5 customized T-shirts. See the full contest details.
Every week, we will also award surprise prizes for more fun.
Note that MathWorks staff are NOT eligible for prizes.
Q5: How do votes on my entries determine my rank on the leaderboard?
The total number of votes on ALL of your entries determines your rank on the leaderboard.
Q6: Do votes on remixed entries add votes to the original entry?
No. We count only direct votes on an entry.
Q7: Is the code (also) automatically compared to earlier submissions to determine the remix tree?
No. You have to remix an entry.