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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{len} = } edgeLength (@var{edge})
+%% Return length of an edge
+%%
+%% L = edgeLength(EDGE);
+%% Returns the length of an edge, with parametric representation:
+%% [x1 y1 x2 y2].
+%%
+%% The function also works for several edges, in this case input is a
+%% [N*4] array, containing parametric representation of each edge, and
+%% output is a [N*1] array containing length of each edge.
+%%
+%% @seealso{edges2d, edgeAngle}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function len = edgeLength(varargin)
+
+ % TODO : specify norm (euclidian, taxi, ...).
+
+ nargs = length(varargin);
+ if nargs == 1
+ edge = varargin{1};
+ len = sqrt(power(edge(:,3)-edge(:,1), 2) + power(edge(:,4)-edge(:,2), 2));
+ end
+
+endfunction
+