hextop

Hexagonal layer topology function

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Syntax

hextop(dimensions)

Description

hextop calculates the neuron positions for layers whose neurons are arranged in an N-dimensional hexagonal pattern.

hextop(dimensions) takes one argument:

dimensions

Row vector of dimension sizes

and returns an N-by-S matrix of N coordinate vectors where N is the number of dimensions and S is the product of dimensions.

Examples

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Display Layer with Hexagonal Pattern

Open Live Script

This example shows how to display a two-dimensional layer with 40 neurons arranged in an 8-by-5 hexagonal pattern.

pos = hextop([8 5]);
plotsom(pos)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Neuron Positions, xlabel position(1,i), ylabel position(2,i) contains 2 objects of type line. One or more of the lines displays its values using only markers

Version History

Introduced before R2006a