We will create a matrix from two smaller matrices as follows:
First, create a 2-by-2 identity matrix:
A = np.eye(2) print("A", A)
The identity matrix looks like the following:
A [[ 1. 0.] [ 0. 1.]]
Create another matrix like
A
and multiply it by 2:B = 2 * A print("B", B)
The second matrix is as follows:
B [[ 2. 0.] [ 0. 2.]]
Create the compound matrix from a string. The string uses the same format as the
mat()
function—use matrices instead of numbers:print("Compound matrix\n", np.bmat("A B; A B"))
The compound matrix is shown as follows:
Compound matrix [[ 1. 0. 2. 0.] [ 0. 1. 0. 2.] [ 1. 0. 2. 0.] [ 0. 1. 0. 2.]]