how to calculate the area of an object in matlab

To calculate the area of an object in Matlab, you can use the polyarea function. This function takes the x and y coordinates of the object vertices as inputs and returns the area of the object.

Here's an example:

main.m
% x and y coordinates of the object vertices
x = [0 5 5 0];
y = [0 0 3 3];

% calculate the area of the object
area = polyarea(x, y);

disp(['The area of the object is ', num2str(area)]);
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This will output:

main.m
The area of the object is 15
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In this example, we defined the x and y coordinates of a rectangle with vertices at (0,0), (5,0), (5,3), and (0,3). We then used the polyarea function to calculate the area of this rectangle, which is 15.

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