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+%% 2008-2011, 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{alpha2} =} normalizeAngle (@var{alpha})
+%% @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{alpha2} =} normalizeAngle (@var{alpha}, @var{center})
+%% Normalize an angle value within a 2*PI interval
+%%
+%% ALPHA2 = normalizeAngle(ALPHA);
+%% ALPHA2 is the same as ALPHA modulo 2*PI and is positive.
+%%
+%% ALPHA2 = normalizeAngle(ALPHA, CENTER);
+%% Specifies the center of the angle interval.
+%% If CENTER==0, the interval is [-pi ; +pi]
+%% If CENTER==PI, the interval is [0 ; 2*pi] (default).
+%%
+%% Example:
+%% % normalization between 0 and 2*pi (default)
+%% normalizeAngle(5*pi)
+%% ans =
+%% 3.1416
+%%
+%% % normalization between -pi and +pi
+%% normalizeAngle(7*pi/2, 0)
+%% ans =
+%% -1.5708
+%%
+%% References
+%% Follows the same convention as apache commons library, see:
+%% http://commons.apache.org/math/api-2.2/org/apache/commons/math/util/MathUtils.html%%
+%%
+%% @seealso{vectorAngle, lineAngle}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function alpha = normalizeAngle(alpha, varargin)
+
+ center = pi;
+ if ~isempty(varargin)
+ center = varargin{1};
+ end
+
+ alpha = mod(alpha-center+pi, 2*pi) + center-pi;
+
+endfunction
+
+%!assert (pi/2, normalizeAngle (pi/2), 1e-6);
+%!assert (pi, normalizeAngle (pi), 1e-6);
+%!assert (3*pi/2, normalizeAngle (3*pi/2), 1e-6);
+%!assert (pi/2, normalizeAngle (pi/2, pi), 1e-6);
+%!assert (pi, normalizeAngle (pi, pi), 1e-6);
+%!assert (3*pi/2, normalizeAngle (3*pi/2, pi), 1e-6);
+
+%!test
+%! theta = linspace(0, 2*pi-.1, 100);
+%! assert(theta, normalizeAngle (theta), 1e-6);
+
+%!assert (0, normalizeAngle (0, 0), 1e-6);
+%!assert (pi/2, normalizeAngle (pi/2, 0), 1e-6);
+%!assert (-pi, normalizeAngle (-pi, 0), 1e-6);
+%!assert (-pi/2, normalizeAngle (7*pi/2, 0), 1e-6);
+
+%!test
+%! theta = linspace(-pi+.1, pi-.1, 100);
+%! assert(theta, normalizeAngle (theta, 0), 1e-6);
+
+