Using three 60000 x 1 double matrices, how to make the 3D graph efficiently in the form of 2D
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SAMET YILDIZ
on 11 Jul 2014
Commented: SAMET YILDIZ
on 25 Jul 2014
Hello, Simply, I need to make use 3 matrices which are 60000 x 1 size each. When I use the code below, I have a serious performance problem and I cannot complete the meshgrid because of the large matrices. How can I implement what I need to do? Thanks
clc
clear all
a=rand(60000,1);
b=rand(60000,1);
c=rand(60000,1);
[X,Y]=meshgrid(a,b);
Z=griddata(a,b,c,X,Y,'cubic');
mesh(X,Y,Z)
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Kelly Kearney
on 11 Jul 2014
Right now, your meshgird command is attempting to create 2 60000x60000 matrices... which are going to require around 26 GB each. However, luckily, that's not actually what you want to do.
Is your real data actually completely scattered, as in this example? Or does it already lie on a grid, but is simply stored in vectors?
If it's truly scattered:
F = scatteredInterpolant(x,y,z);
[x,y] = meshgrid(linspace(min(a),max(a),100), linspace(min(b),max(b),100));
z = F(x,y);
mesh(x,y,z);
If it lies on a grid already, you can eliminate the triagulation and simply rearrange your data into the appropriate grids.
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Kelly Kearney
on 11 Jul 2014
The edge effects are probably due to extrapolation. By default, scatteredInterpolant performs linear interpolation and extrapolation, and linear extrapolation can run away like that if your edge points are noisy. You might want to try nearest neighbor extrapolation instead:
F = scatteredInterpolant(x,y,'linear','nearest');
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