What are the features of MATLAB fig-format?

One can store MATLAB Figure (Editor) content as special *.fig (of course, we can export jpg-files and others). But what is fig-format. As I suppose, this is XML-like format, but in binary form. Isn't it? Who knows inner details?

Answer 1

[Andrew Newell]

See Yair Altman's article.

[Igor]

Thank you very much

Answer 2

[Friedrich]

Hi,

fig files are binary mat files. This can be obtained when you load a fig file as follows:

a = load('figename.fig','-mat')

If you want to know how an mat file is designed look here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/pdf_doc/matlab/matfile_format.pdf

[Igor]

That is:

fig-file is a kind of mat-file?

interesting result of this command in command line... I see the WorkSpace. And further -- how can I visualize this structure via command line?