How to represent a set of matrices into a single cell?

My problem is as follows:

a=4;

b=4;

A=round((30-10).*rand(a,b) + 10);

B=round((100-40).*rand(a,b) + 40);

C=round((250-80).*rand(a,b) + 80);

D=round((80-20).*rand(a,b) + 20);

E=cell(a,b);

for i=1:a

for j=1:b

E{i,j}=[A(i,j) B(i,j) C(i,j) D(i,j)];

end

end

Is there any simple and short ways instead of using loop or any other unnecessary lines?

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

E = num2cell([A(:), B(:), C(:), D(:)], 2);
E = reshape(E, a, b)

[SM]

Thank you!

Answer 2

[David Hill]

I would keep them all in a single matrix and then form matrix E (a*b X 4) where each row would hold the cell information of your orginal code.

a=4;b=4;c=[30,100,250,80];d=[10,40,80,20];
for k=1:4
    A(:,:,k)=round((c(1)-d(1))*rand(a,b)+d(1));
end
B=permute(A,[2,1,3]);
E=reshape(B(:),a*b,[]);

[SM]

Thank you!