direct matlab integration

[chrishavlin]

in addition to the current functionality (load in a .mat file), it would be good to use the matlab.engine to provide some direct matlab support. This would only work for matlab (not octave) and the communication overhead between data may make it unusable for high-throughput operations, but it would be useful for some problems and straightforward to implement. It could also provide a way to test accuracy of the interpolators.

See https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/call-matlab-functions-from-python.html