The reason is this.
Lets say I make two 500x500 matrices using the following.
A = ones(500,500);
B = 4*ones(500,500);
Lets look at how big one of those is
whos A
Name Size Bytes Class Attributes
A 500x500 2000000 double
2,000,000 Bytes is 2 Megabytes.
Now to run meshgrid, the grid vector A is replicated numel(B) times to form the columns of X
How many times is that?
2BM * 250,000 is the same as 500GB
Do you have 500GB available?
You can check using memory. Here is an example
memory
Maximum possible array: 89643 MB (9.400e+10 bytes) *
Memory available for all arrays: 89643 MB (9.400e+10 bytes) *
Memory used by MATLAB: 3493 MB (3.663e+09 bytes)
Physical Memory (RAM): 16308 MB (1.710e+10 bytes)
Here I can see that I only have enough space for about 90GB of array space when for this process I will need 500GB. This means I result in the same error as you.
meshgrid(A,B)
Error using repmat
Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.
Error in meshgrid (line 58)
xx = repmat(xrow,size(ycol));
And that is why you are having your problem! Not enough memory available on your computer. You will need to try to split the problem up or perhaps lower grid resolution if possible.
I hope this explanation answered your question, good luck!
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