Comments on: Spy Easter egg take 2

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:03:49 +0000

@Oleg – thanks. This was due to a bug in the WordPress code that renders < characters – It's now fixed. I had to revert to a sub-optimal non-syntax-highlighted rendering of the code, but at least it's now correct.

By: Oleg Komarov

Oleg Komarov — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:18:23 +0000

Hi Yair, the spy snippet has a vertcat error in c as a poster mentioned on SO. I answered with the error free snippet here.

By: Michelle Hirsch

Michelle Hirsch — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:00:27 +0000

In reply to Daniel Shub. Close, but it's not Sean's dog. The dog belongs to the lead developer of the sparse matrix functions in MATLAB.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:39:37 +0000

In reply to naor. @Naor - I've added an addendum showing how you can regenerate the old spy image

By: naor

naor — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:39:45 +0000

I too was disappointed last year when I realized the spy was gone. Perhaps it is still reachable in some undocumented way?

By: Daniel Shub

Daniel Shub — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:07:11 +0000

If you trust the comment at MATLAB answers: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2001-what-matlab-easter-eggs-do-you-know#answer_3077 it is Sean de Wolski’s dog. Sean is a relatively new employee at TMW and a frequent contributor to Answers. I think the dog is on his current avatar: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/contributors/3208495-sean-de-wolski