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+%% 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{line} = } medianLine (@var{p1}, @var{p2})
+%% @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{line} = } medianLine (@var{pts})
+%% @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{line} = } medianLine (@var{edge})
+%% Create a median line between two points.
+%%
+%% Create the median line of points @var{p1} and @var{p2}, that is the line containing
+%% all points located at equal distance of @var{p1} and @var{p2}.
+%%
+%% Creates the median line of 2 points, given as a 2*2 array @var{pts}. Array has
+%% the form:
+%% [ [ x1 y1 ] ; [ x2 y2 ] ]
+%%
+%% Creates the median of the @var{edge}. @var{edge} is a 1*4 array, containing [X1 Y1]
+%% coordinates of first point, and [X2 Y2], the coordinates of the second
+%% point.
+%%
+%% Example
+%%
+%% @example
+%% % Draw the median line of two points
+%% P1 = [10 20];
+%% P2 = [30 50];
+%% med = medianLine(P1, P2);
+%% figure; axis square; axis([0 100 0 100]);
+%% drawEdge([P1 P2], 'linewidth', 2, 'color', 'k');
+%% drawLine(med)
+%%
+%% % Draw the median line of an edge
+%% P1 = [50 60];
+%% P2 = [80 30];
+%% edge = createEdge(P1, P2);
+%% figure; axis square; axis([0 100 0 100]);
+%% drawEdge(edge, 'linewidth', 2)
+%% med = medianLine(edge);
+%% drawLine(med)
+%% @end example
+%%
+%% @seealso{lines2d, createLine, orthogonalLine}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function lin = medianLine(varargin)
+
+ nargs = length(varargin);
+ x0 = 0;
+ y0 = 0;
+ dx = 0;
+ dy = 0;
+
+ if nargs == 1
+ tab = varargin{1};
+ if size(tab, 2)==2
+ % input is an array of two points
+ x0 = tab(1,1);
+ y0 = tab(1,2);
+ dx = tab(2,1)-x0;
+ dy = tab(2,2)-y0;
+ else
+ % input is an edge
+ x0 = tab(:, 1);
+ y0 = tab(:, 2);
+ dx = tab(:, 3) - tab(:, 1);
+ dy = tab(:, 4) - tab(:, 2);
+ end
+
+ elseif nargs==2
+ % input is given as two points, or two point arrays
+ p1 = varargin{1};
+ p2 = varargin{2};
+ x0 = p1(:, 1);
+ y0 = p1(:, 2);
+ dx = bsxfun(@minus, p2(:, 1), x0);
+ dy = bsxfun(@minus, p2(:, 2), y0);
+
+ else
+ error('Too many input arguments');
+ end
+
+ % compute median using middle point of the edge, and the direction vector
+ % rotated by 90 degrees counter-clockwise
+ lin = [bsxfun(@plus, x0, dx/2), bsxfun(@plus, y0, dy/2), -dy, dx];
+
+endfunction
+
+%!shared privpath
+%! privpath = [fileparts(which('geom2d_Contents')) filesep() 'private'];
+
+%!test
+%! addpath (privpath,'-end')
+%! p1 = [0 0];
+%! p2 = [10 0];
+%! exp = [5 0 0 10];
+%! lin = medianLine(p1, p2);
+%! assertElementsAlmostEqual(exp, lin);
+%! rmpath (privpath);
+
+%!test
+%! addpath (privpath,'-end')
+%! p1 = [0 0];
+%! p2 = [10 0];
+%! exp = [5 0 0 10];
+%! lin = medianLine([p1 p2]);
+%! assertElementsAlmostEqual(exp, lin);
+%! rmpath (privpath);
+
+%!test
+%! addpath (privpath,'-end')
+%! p1 = [0 0; 10 10];
+%! p2 = [10 0;10 20];
+%! exp = [5 0 0 10; 10 15 -10 0];
+%! lin = medianLine(p1, p2);
+%! assertElementsAlmostEqual(exp, lin);
+%! rmpath (privpath);