MATLAB: Drawing this shape using *

homework

How to draw This Shape
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I tried to play around some nested loops and didn't work for me

Best Answer

This takes me back to my FORTRAN days in the late 1960s when line printer code similar to this was the only option for plotting.
Try this: 
spc = uint16(' ');
ast = uint16('*');
tringl = char(ones(6,6,'uint8')*32);
for k1 = 2:size(tringl,1)
    tringl(k1,[8-k1,4+k1]) = ast;
end
for k1 = 1:size(tringl,1)
    fprintf(1, '%s\n', tringl(k1,:))
end
Experiment to get the result you want.
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