User:DoubleKK

General Information

My name is Keerthighaan Kanagasegar. Please ask me how to pronounce this. I'd rather you annoy me by asking me than annoy me by saying my name wrong. I believe it's said as you read it, and most people just group the wrong letters together. Say the syllables quickly.

First Name: Keyr-thee-gin Last Name: Ka-na-ga-say-ger

Assignments

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Villages Awash in Clean Water Thanks to Group, Janet O'Neil, Redding.com, created 15 September, 2010, accessed 18 September 2010 (Clean Water)

MATLAB Demos

I found it somewhat difficult to find my favorite demo because for most of them revealed to me that you could create such interesting figures and applications just through matrix manipulation. But because I have to choose one, the Earth's Topography demo was my favorite. To say the least, it was astounding and beautiful. The fact that using only the altitude data of Earth, I could easily map the entire world, and very accurately at that. The globe looked like every other globe I have seen, but created in a way that seemed almost magical. However, the globe is just a colorful graph of a matrix. I suppose the reason I like this demo is because it showed that something great could be created so simply. In a way, this demo also shows that the entire world can be defined by numbers. With only a few lines of code and some data, you can create an excellent representation of the world; with more lines of code and more data, the possibilities of MATLAB are endless. Last but not least, this demo revealed to me that the boundaries on a globe are nothing more than areas of zero elevation. This makes absolute sense, but I had never looked at a globe with this perspective.