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July 7th, 2008

Advanced MATLAB: Class system for OOP in MATLAB introduction

This week we will be looking at the MATLAB class system. This video does not cover the “why” of doing OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in MATLAB. It just covers a very simple example of doing OOP.

The ten minute video shows an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in MATLAB with classes. Though it is not covered in the video, you can implement other lifelike Cellular Automation algorithms by altering the parameters for survival and birth.

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By Doug Hull

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3 Responses to “Advanced MATLAB: Class system for OOP in MATLAB introduction”

  1. J.Paul R replied on July 7th, 2008 at 15:28 UTC :

    Nice, but there seems to be a bug in the included files. On line 19 you look for a (presumed) property countSelf, which doesn’t exist. Adding countSelf = false; (or countSelf=true;) in the property section fixes this.

    For an alternative implementation, see:
    http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2008/05/20/lookup-tables-conway-game-life/

    Steve used binary lookup tables and the image processing toolbox for a “vectorized” approach which would presumably be faster.

  2. Doug replied on July 8th, 2008 at 07:46 UTC :

    Thank you. I must have “cleaned up” my code accidentally. Problem has been solved and updated in the File Exchange!

    Doug

  3. DanK replied on July 9th, 2008 at 08:02 UTC :

    Doug,
    A very nice and timely blog, since I’m just starting the learning of MatLab OOP this week. I would like to mention one glaring hole in the documentation, etc. which is that there are virtually no examples of classes where the methods are not contained in the classdef file. The project which I’m now applying OOP to has something like 30 subfunctions with about 8,000 lines of code, so I don’t want to try to stick it all in one monster file. Likewise I was most unsatisfied with the documentation on packages. Overall, I think it will take me a while to get used to thinking in OOP, but I see potential benefits, and this blog did provide some help in terms of a framework.

    Thanks,
    Dan

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