A Matlab snippet to output Base64-encoded img's to be used for HTML visualizations

matlab_embed_figure_in_html.m

f = figure();
plot(1:10, 1:10);

rgbData = figToImStream('figHandle', f, 'imageFormat', 'jpg', 'outputType', 'uint8');
%print(f, '-djpg', '/tmp/vis.jpg'); rgbData = fread(fopen('/tmp/vis.jpg'), 'uint8=>uint8'); % replace previous line by this line in case of failure

fprintf('<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,%s" />', char(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64(rgbData))');

close(f);