About generating the binary image from mathematical coordinates

Hi there,

I get a set of points in two dimensional Cartesian system, that is (x, y). My purpose is to generate a two-dimensional binary image with that coordinates. But the range for y and x are different and the step is not fixed. Actually, the pair of values are generated by random number in [0, 1] and mapping to a range with some formula

y: [-2pi, 2pi]
x: [0, 4pi]

if I plot each "point" on the figure it will show some shape actually. But my problem I don't want to plot it to a figure and then save it as image. So is that any way to convert that directly to a binary image of size N x N?

Actually, I try something like this

img = zeros(N, N);
xp = int32(x*N/(4*pi));
yp = int32((y+2*pi)*N/(4*pi));
img(xp, yp) = 1;

but it takes forever to run the program.

any better way to do that? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Use vectors of xp and yp, and use subsref() to do the assignment.

fix() or round() might be more efficient than int32()

[Ki]

Thanks for your reply. I try round, seems a bit faster but still not good enough. But the way, I try to following the doc but still can't subsref to work. By the way, if I plot(x, p), it do show me the correct image. However, if I use above relation to write it to a matrix img (I try for small matrix size) and then plot img, it doesn't show me what I expect. Is the mapping sort of incorrect?