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+## Copyright (C) 2008 Soren Hauberg
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+## as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3
+## of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} @var{B} = imcomplement(@var{A})
+## Computes the complement image. Intuitively this corresponds to the intensity
+## of bright and dark regions being reversed.
+##
+## For binary images, the complement is computed as @code{!@var{A}}, for floating
+## point images it is computed as @code{1 - @var{A}}, and for integer images as
+## @code{intmax(class(@var{A})) - @var{A}}.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function B = imcomplement(A)
+ ## Check input
+ if (nargin != 1)
+ error("imcomplement: not enough input arguments");
+ endif
+ if (!ismatrix(A))
+ error("imcomplement: input must be an array");
+ endif
+
+ ## Take action depending on the class of A
+ if (isa(A, "double") || isa(A, "single"))
+ B = 1 - A;
+ elseif (islogical(A))
+ B = !A;
+ elseif (isinteger(A))
+ B = intmax(class(A)) - A;
+ else
+ error("imcomplement: unsupported input class: '%s'", class(A));
+ endif
+endfunction