How to flip specific parts of a matrix - matlab

Question

I am trying to flip certain parts of a matrix. I can explain better by example. Let's say that I have a matrix
M = [ 1 3 6;
1 2 4;
1 7 1;
2 9 0;
2 8 3;
2 4 2;
2 3 1;
3 6 5;
3 4 5;
3 1 9;
4 2 4;
4 8 6 ]
What I'd like to do here is take any rows with an even number in the first column, and flip the third column elements. The end result would look like this:
1 3 6
1 2 4
1 7 1
2 9 1 *
2 8 2 *
2 4 3 *
2 3 0 *
3 6 5
3 4 5
3 1 9
4 2 6 *
4 8 4 *
Note the rows marked with a star have had the elements of the third column flipped upside-down. The problem I'm having is going through each row like in a for-loop you cannot flip an entire set of rows.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Another time accumarray is the way to go:
A =[ 1 3 6 ;
1 2 4 ;
1 7 1 ;
2 9 0 ;
2 8 3 ;
2 4 2 ;
2 3 1 ;
3 6 5 ;
3 4 5 ;
3 1 9 ;
4 2 4 ;
4 8 6 ]
C = accumarray(A(:,1),A(:,3),[],#(x) {flipud(x)} ); %// get groups according to
%// first column and flip it
C = vertcat(C{:}); %// cell array returned,
%// transform to matrix
mask = ~mod(A(:,1),2); %// mask for even numbers
A(mask,3) = C(mask); %// replace masked values of 3rd column with flipped ones
returns:
A =
1 3 6
1 2 4
1 7 1
2 9 1
2 8 2
2 4 3
2 3 0
3 6 5
3 4 5
3 1 9
4 2 6
4 8 4
Certainly slower, but just for fun in two lines:
C = accumarray(A(:,1),A(:,3),[],#(x) {flipud(x)} );
A(~mod(A(:,1),2),3) = getfield( vertcat(C{:}), {~mod(A(:,1),2)});
%// well no, I won't explain it...
Edit: I assumed your first column just contains integers!

Answer 2

I would suggest you break the problem down into stages, something like so:
Identify blocks you wish to flip
Extract them
Flip them
Replace them
You can identify a set of even numbers using the unique and mod functions, then use a for loop over them and use logical indexing to pull/replace the blocks.

Answer 3

Here, try this
a = magic(5); % Some data in a 5x5 matrix
b = 1:numel(a); % Indices of <a>
Rearrange b however you want, then do a=a(b) to reassign a based on the reassigned indices of b. For example, the following code
disp(a(b));
would just return the elements of a in their original order. For your application this code should work:
a = <your matrix data>
b = 1:numel(a);
b = [b(1:27) fliplr(b(28:31)) b(32:34) fliplr(b(35:36))] % Change this part
a = reshape(a(b),size(a))
You should change b based on whatever you need it to do.