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+%% 2004-2011, 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{line} = } radicalAxis (@var{circle1}, @var{circle2})
+%% Compute the radical axis (or radical line) of 2 circles
+%%
+%% L = radicalAxis(C1, C2)
+%% Computes the radical axis of 2 circles.
+%%
+%% Example
+%% C1 = [10 10 5];
+%% C2 = [60 50 30];
+%% L = radicalAxis(C1, C2);
+%% hold on; axis equal;axis([0 100 0 100]);
+%% drawCircle(C1);drawCircle(C2);drawLine(L);
+%%
+%% Ref:
+%% http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RadicalLine.html
+%% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_axis
+%%
+%% @seealso{lines2d, circles2d, createCircle}
+%%
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function line = radicalAxis(circle1, circle2)
+
+ % extract circles parameters
+ x1 = circle1(:,1);
+ x2 = circle2(:,1);
+ y1 = circle1(:,2);
+ y2 = circle2(:,2);
+ r1 = circle1(:,3);
+ r2 = circle2(:,3);
+
+ % distance between each couple of centers
+ dist = sqrt((x2-x1).^2 + (y2-y1).^2);
+
+ % relative position of intersection point of
+ % the radical line with the line joining circle centers
+ d = (dist.^2 + r1.^2 - r2.^2) * .5 ./ dist;
+
+ % compute angle of radical axis
+ angle = lineAngle(createLine([x1 y1], [x2 y2]));
+ cot = cos(angle);
+ sit = sin(angle);
+
+ % parameters of the line
+ x0 = x1 + d*cot;
+ y0 = y1 + d*sit;
+ dx = -sit;
+ dy = cot;
+
+ % concatenate into one structure
+ line = [x0 y0 dx dy];
+
+endfunction
+