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+%% 2007-2011, 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{circle} = } enclosingCircle (@var{pts})
+%% Find the minimum circle enclosing a set of points.
+%%
+%% CIRCLE = enclosingCircle(POINTS);
+%% compute cirlce CIRCLE=[xc yc r] which enclose all points POINTS given
+%% as an [Nx2] array.
+%%
+%%
+%% Rewritten from a file from
+%% Yazan Ahed
+%% which was rewritten from a Java applet by Shripad Thite :
+%% @url{http://heyoka.cs.uiuc.edu/~thite/mincircle/}
+%%
+%% @seealso{circles2d, points2d, boxes2d}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function circle = enclosingCircle(pts)
+
+ % works on convex hull : it is faster
+ pts = pts(convhull(pts(:,1), pts(:,2)), :);
+
+ circle = recurseCircle(size(pts, 1), pts, 1, zeros(3, 2));
+
+endfunction
+
+function circ = recurseCircle(n, p, m, b)
+% n: number of points given
+% m: an argument used by the function. Always use 1 for m.
+% bnry: an argument (3x2 array) used by the function to set the points that
+% determines the circle boundry. You have to be careful when choosing this
+% array's values. I think the values should be somewhere outside your points
+% boundary. For my case, for example, I know the (x,y) I have will be something
+% in between (-5,-5) and (5,5), so I use bnry as:
+% [-10 -10
+% -10 -10
+% -10 -10]
+
+
+ if m==4
+ circ = createCircle(b(1,:), b(2,:), b(3,:));
+ return;
+ end
+
+ circ = [Inf Inf 0];
+
+ if m == 2
+ circ = [b(1,1:2) 0];
+ elseif m == 3
+ c = (b(1,:) + b(2,:))/2;
+ circ = [c distancePoints(b(1,:), c)];
+ end
+
+
+ for i = 1:n
+ if distancePoints(p(i,:), circ(1:2)) > circ(3)
+ if sum(b(:,1)==p(i,1) & b(:,2)==p(i,2)) == 0
+ b(m,:) = p(i,:);
+ circ = recurseCircle(i, p, m+1, b);
+ end
+ end
+ end
+
+endfunction
+