How can I access an element of an n-D matrix where index comes from a mathematical operation in Matlab?
For example I have a 4D Matrix called A.
I want to access element 1,1,1,1 which results from (3,4,5,6) - (2,3,4,5)
Is there any way I can do this assuming that the array can be any dimension d and that the array from subtraction will always be d elements long?
One possible way would be to utilise the fact that MATLAB can use linear indexing for any n-dimensional array as well as row-column type indexing. Then you just have to calculate the linear index of your operation result.
There may be a more elegant way to do this but if x is the array holding the result of your operation, then the following works
element = A(sum((x-1).*(size(A).^[0:length(size(A))-1]))+1);
The sub2ind function feels like it should help here, but doesn't seem to.
Another approach is to converting to a cell array, then to a comma-separated list:
A = rand(3,4,5,6); % example A
t = [2 1 3 4]; % example index
u = num2cell(t);
result = A(u{:});
