I am using Matlab as a new hobby and not for school. I am very new and am reading through Computer Programming with MATLAB: J. Michael Fitzpatrick and Akos Ledeczi. There is a practice problem that I am stuck on:
Write a function named custom_blocks that takes an n-by-m matrix as an input argument (the function does not have to check the format of the input) and returns a 2n-by-2m matrix as an output argument. The upper left n-by-m sub matrix of the output matrix is the same as the input matrix. The elements of the upper right n-by-m sub matrix are twice as large as the corresponding elements of the input matrix. Similarly, the lower left submatrix is the input matrix multiplied by three and the lower right n-by-m submatrix is four times the input matrix. For example, here is an example run:
>> custom_blocks([1:3;3:-1:1])
ans =
1 2 3 2 4 6
3 2 1 6 4 2
3 6 9 4 8 12
9 6 3 12 8 4
Being very new to MATLAB. I have very little idea of where to start. I was thinking concatination, concatinating the same matrix 4 times but multiplying it by 1,2,3, then 4 as requested.
My current function is a very rough idea of what I want it to do. The main difference between my function and the correct function is the input is scalar rather than an array:
function A = custom_blocks(n,m);
A = [ones(n,m),2*ones(n,m);3*ones(n,m),4*ones(n,m)];
end
I made this function to get a rough idea of what is happening and to hopefully get the ball rolling. Though I am very stuck.
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