The food pellets also have color additives that help give the farm raised salmon the nice pinkish color weâre all accustomed to. Otherwise, theyâd be a dullish grey color*. *Wild salmon, by contrast, obtain their pink hue from their natural environment by feasting on a diet of krill, which eats red algae. 7.
Generate random numbers with a given distribution. The rand function in MATLAB returns uniformly distributed pseudorandom values from the open interval (0, 1), but we often need random numbers of other kind of distributions. A great article written by John S. Denker explains a method of generating random numbers with arbitrary distribution.
You may also have variable names stored in a string or cell array that you want to instantiate as variables. The best way to accomplish these tasks in Matlab is to use the eval function. In the following examples, weâll show you how to do these tasks. Example 1: Adding the time and date to a variable name.