How can stop "while" loop

Asked by Hisham on 21 Aug 2012
Latest activity Commented on by Hisham on 23 Aug 2012

Hi, I have a while loop, my code is inside the loop. I want to stop the loop when the same number (must be non zero)created in the matrix from the first row to the last row.

ex.

this matrix is inside the while loop:

U3(:,:,1) = [

0 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 0;

0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 1;

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0

]

U3(:,:,2) = [

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 1;

0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0

]

U3(:,:,3) = [

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 1;

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0;

0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0

]

Now, the loop will continue but if U3(1,2, 1) becomes equal to 1, the loop will stop. How can I do it?

Note:

The bath from the first row to the last row can go in any direction (x,y,z) but it must pass from the topped row to the bottom row similar to the above example. The bath from the topped row to the bottom row is as:

U3(1,2,1), U3(2,2,1), U3(3,2,1), U3(3,2,2), U3(4,2,2), U3(5,2,2) and U3(3,2,3) ONLY

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Answer by Hisham on 21 Aug 2012
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But how can I do it for 3D matrix?

Note: I might have more than an island, but I want to stop the while loop when any of the islands created a path from the topped row to the bottom row.

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Answer by José-Luis on 21 Aug 2012
Edited by José-Luis on 22 Aug 2012

Your condition should be

[x y z] = size(U3);
condZ = sum(sum(sum(U3,3) == z)) > 0;
condY = sum(sum(sum(U3,2) == y)) > 0;
condX = sum(sum(sum(U3) == x)) > 0;
stopBool = condX || condY || condZ;

Cheers!

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Hisham on 23 Aug 2012

I downloaded the file from the above link. Then I used this code:

load exampleA.mat 
figure 
hpat = PATCH_3Darray(gridINPUT,gridX,gridY,gridZ);

But the issue is about how can I put U3 matrix in the code.

Do I need to change "gridINPUT" to "U3"? or how to plot the U£ matrix?

José-Luis on 23 Aug 2012

Hisham, I would strongly recommend reading the getting started part of the documentation. grinInput, gridX, gridY, and gridZ are just placeholder variable names that are passed to the function PATCH_3Darray. You can name them whatever you want. In this case, yes, gridINPUT would be U3. Copy/pasting from the function description:

gridX (optional) - A 1xP array - List of the X axis coordinates.
gridY (optional) - A 1xQ array - List of the Y axis coordinates.
gridZ (optional) - A 1xR array - List of the Z axis coordinates.

That means that passing PATCH_3Darray(U3) should be enough to produce some results.

Hisham on 23 Aug 2012

I tried the above function but it is suitable for my case. Do you know any function or way to plot similar to the link below?

I did it for 2D by using the following code:

   [r,c]=size(U3);
figure

for cIdx=1:c,
    y=find(U3(:,cIdx)==1);

      if length(y)>1
          y=(r+1)-y;
          x=ones(size(y))*cIdx;
          for idx=1:length(x)-1
              if abs( y(idx) - y(idx+1))<=1
                  line(x(idx:idx+1),y(idx:idx+1),'LineWidth',4)
              end
          end
          hold on
      end
end

for rIdx=1:r,
    x=find(U3(rIdx,:)==1);

      if length(x)>1
          y=(r+1)-ones(size(x))*rIdx;
          for idx=1:length(x)-1
              if abs( x(idx) - x(idx+1))<=1
                  line(x(idx:idx+1),y(idx:idx+1),'LineWidth',4)
              end
          end
          hold on
      end
end

It is very complicated to do it for 3D. Do you know any function able to do it?

Thanks!

José-Luis
Answer by Azzi Abdelmalek on 21 Aug 2012

add a condition to your while loop

test=1
while condition1 & test==1
%your program
%if you want exit a loop change the value of test for example
test=0, %any value different from 1

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Hisham on 22 Aug 2012

It is very nice, but my problem is how can I build the condition that should be valid for a 3D matrix.

can you help me more...please

Azzi Abdelmalek

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