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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{theta} =} edgeAngle(@var{edge})
+%% Return angle of edge
+%%
+%% A = edgeAngle(EDGE)
+%% Returns the angle between horizontal, right-axis and the edge EDGE.
+%% Angle is given in radians, between 0 and 2*pi, in counter-clockwise
+%% direction.
+%% Notation for edge is [x1 y1 x2 y2] (coordinates of starting and ending
+%% points).
+%%
+%% Example
+%% p1 = [10 20];
+%% p2 = [30 40];
+%% rad2deg(edgeAngle([p1 p2]))
+%% ans =
+%% 45
+%%
+%% @seealso{edges2d, angles2d, edgeAngle, lineAngle, edgeLength}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function theta = edgeAngle(edge)
+
+ line = createLine(edge(:,1:2), edge(:,3:4));
+ theta = lineAngle(line);
+
+endfunction
+