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+%% 2005-2011, 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{pts} = } squaregrid (@var{bounds}, @var{origin}, @var{size})
+%% Generate equally spaces points in plane.
+%%
+%% usage
+%% PTS = squareGrid(BOUNDS, ORIGIN, SIZE)
+%% generate points, lying in the window defined by BOUNDS (=[xmin ymin
+%% xmax ymax]), starting from origin with a constant step equal to size.
+%%
+%% Example
+%% PTS = squareGrid([0 0 10 10], [3 3], [4 2])
+%% will return points :
+%% [3 1;7 1;3 3;7 3;3 5;7 5;3 7;7 7;3 9;7 9];
+%%
+%% TODO: add possibility to use rotated grid
+%%
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function varargout = squareGrid(bounds, origin, size)
+
+ % find all x coordinate
+ x1 = bounds(1) + mod(origin(1)-bounds(1), size(1));
+ x2 = bounds(3) - mod(bounds(3)-origin(1), size(1));
+ lx = (x1:size(1):x2)';
+
+ % find all y coordinate
+ y1 = bounds(2) + mod(origin(2)-bounds(2), size(2));
+ y2 = bounds(4) - mod(bounds(4)-origin(2), size(2));
+ ly = (y1:size(2):y2)';
+
+ % number of points in each coord, and total number of points
+ ny = length(ly);
+ nx = length(lx);
+ np = nx*ny;
+
+ % create points
+ pts = zeros(np, 2);
+ for i=1:ny
+ pts( (1:nx)'+(i-1)*nx, 1) = lx;
+ pts( (1:nx)'+(i-1)*nx, 2) = ly(i);
+ end
+
+ % process output
+ if nargout>0
+ varargout{1} = pts;
+ end
+
+endfunction
+