What is a(:,2:3)?

a = [ 1 2 3 4 5; 2 3 4 5 6; 3 4 5 6 7; 4 5 6 7 8]

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What space?

[Bella]

what?

[Kelvin]

1 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 3 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 7 It’s a matrix

Answer 1

[Todd Leonhardt]

a(:,2:3) is saying "give me the submatrix of a which consists of all rows and the 2nd and 3rd columns".

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[Bella]

I did try it and I got [3 4; 4 5; 5 6] but it said it was wrong

[Todd Leonhardt]

Then I believe you entered something wrong. It should be [2 3; 3 4; 4 5; 5 6].

[Bella]

hmm, well thank you!

[Image Analyst]

What do you mean "it said it was wrong"? +*What*_ said that? MATLAB? If so, post the error message here. If you got that you must have left off the top row and done this:

a = [
  2 3 4 5 6;
  3 4 5 6 7;
  4 5 6 7 8]
a(:,2:3)

However there is nothing in MATLAB that says anything is wrong about that - no error message or anything.

Answer 2

[Greg Biyu]

what is (:,:,3)?

[Steven Lord]

You may find this documentation page informative.

[Ghislain Rutayisire]

exactly what i was looking for!

[Anu Sebastian]

What you mean by G=he(:,:,2); Especially (:,:,2)

[Walter Roberson]

@Anu Sebastian

You were dealing with

he = imread('1.jpg');

which reads the image file and stores the result as an array.

If 1.jpg had been a color image, then the resulting array he would have been a 3D array, with the first index being for rows (vertical height), and the second index being for columns (horizontal distance), and for the third index being for color panes. The first color pane for an RGB image holds the Red component. The second color pane for an RGB image holds the Green component. The third color pane for an RGB image holds the Blue component.

Thus, if 1.jpg had been an RGB image, then he(:,:,2) would be a 2D array containing just the green component of the color information for each pixel.

However, your 1.jpg was not an RGB image; it was a grayscale image, and there is no red or green or blue component. If you needed specifically the green information (for example you were examining leaves) then you would not be able to proceed using that image. If, though, the green component was being used to approximate brightness (eyes are more sensitive to green), then you could just use the data you received instead. For example,

if ndims(he) > 2
    G = he(:,:,2);
else
    G = he;
end
end

[Anu Sebastian]

Thank you sir

Answer 3

[Maria Celeste]

What are the answers to these? >> B(2:5) 20. >> A(4:8) 21. >> A(:,3) 22. >> B(:,3:4) 23. >> A(2:3,:) 24. >> B(2:3, 2:4) 25. >> length (A)

[Walter Roberson]

B(2:5) is 'TAIF'

A(4:8) is [81 84 83 72 76]

A(:,3) is [84; 83]

B(:,3:4) is ['II'; 'XN'; 'YX']

A(2:3,:) is an error because A does not have 3 or more rows.

B(2:3, 2:4) is ['FXN'; 'KYX']