User:Ajk48
About Me
My name is Alex Kanaris, and I am a Pratt '17 student from Chicago, Il. Some of my interests include swimming and playing water polo, biking, and eating.
Grand Challenges for Engineering
Engineer better medicines
Future of Personalized Medicine in Oncology: A Systems Biology Approach, Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, Bryan T.J. Hennessy and Gordon B. Mills, Journal of Clinical Oncology, updated 11 March 2010, accessed 14 September 2013
Matlab Demnstration
The demonstration that I found the most interesting was the 'Viewing a Penny' graphic. I found it interesting that there were so many ways to represent a penny in a 3-D graphing environment. In showing the contour map, for example, the colors and the number of lines used can be manipulated so that the contour map generated by Matlab can be made to look very similar to the 3-D object being represented. In addition to contour plots, 3-D objects can be represented using colormap, in which the brightness of the object is proportional to its height. In the example, the colormap of the penny was manipulated to show an image that looked just like a photograph of a penny.
