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+%% Copyright (c) 2011, INRA
+%% 2003-2011, David Legland <david.legland@grignon.inra.fr>
+%% 2011 Adapted to Octave by Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
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+
+%% -*- texinfo -*-
+%% @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{h} =} drawBox (@var{box})
+%% @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} drawBox (@var{box}, @var{param}, @var{value}, ...)
+%% Draw a box defined by coordinate extents
+%%
+%% Draws a box defined by its extent: @var{box} = [@var{xmin} @var{xmax}
+%% @var{ymin} @var{ymax}]. Addtional
+%% arguments are passed to function @code{plot}. If requested, it returns the
+%% handle to the graphics object created.
+%%
+%% @seealso{drawOrientedBox, drawRect, plot}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function varargout = drawBox(box, varargin)
+
+ % default values
+ xmin = box(:,1);
+ xmax = box(:,2);
+ ymin = box(:,3);
+ ymax = box(:,4);
+
+ nBoxes = size(box, 1);
+ r = zeros(nBoxes, 1);
+
+ % iterate on boxes
+ for i = 1:nBoxes
+ % exract min and max values
+ tx(1) = xmin(i);
+ ty(1) = ymin(i);
+ tx(2) = xmax(i);
+ ty(2) = ymin(i);
+ tx(3) = xmax(i);
+ ty(3) = ymax(i);
+ tx(4) = xmin(i);
+ ty(4) = ymax(i);
+ tx(5) = xmin(i);
+ ty(5) = ymin(i);
+
+ % display polygon
+ r(i) = plot(tx, ty, varargin{:});
+ end
+
+ % format output
+ if nargout > 0
+ varargout = {r};
+ end
+
+endfunction