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+## Copyright (C) 2010 VZLU Prague
+##
+## 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn{Function File} {@var{s} =} blksparse (@var{i}, @var{j}, @var{sv})
+## @deftypefnx{Function File} {@var{s} =} blksparse (@var{i}, @var{j}, @var{sv}, @var{m}, @var{n})
+## @deftypefnx{Function File} {@var{s} =} blksparse (@dots{}, @var{mode})
+##
+## Construct a block sparse matrix. The meaning of arguments is analogous to the
+## built-in @code{sparse} function, except that @var{i}, @var{j} are indices of
+## blocks rather than elements, and @var{sv} is a 3-dimensional array, the first two
+## dimensions determining the block size. Optionally, @var{m} and @var{n} can be
+## specified as the true block dimensions; if not, the maximum values of @var{i}, @var{j}
+## are taken instead. The resulting sparse matrix has the size
+##
+## @example
+## [@var{m}*@var{p}, @var{n}*@var{q}]
+## @end example
+##
+## where
+##
+## @example
+## @var{p} = size (@var{sv}, 1)
+## @var{q} = size (@var{sv}, 2)
+## @end example
+##
+## The blocks are located so that
+##
+## @example
+## @var{s}(@var{i}(k):@var{i}(k)+@var{p}-1, @var{j}(k):@var{j}(K)+@var{q}-1) = @var{sv}(:,:,k)
+## @end example
+##
+## Multiple blocks corresponding to the same pair of indices are summed, unless
+## @var{mode} is "unique", in which case the last of them is used.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function s = blksparse (i, j, sv, m = 0, n = 0, mode)
+ persistent chkver = check_version ();
+ if (nargin == 0)
+ i = j = zeros (0, 1);
+ sv = zeros (1, 1, 0);
+ s = class (struct ("i", i, "j", j, "sv", sv, "siz", [0, 0], "bsiz", [1, 1]), "blksparse");
+ return
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin < 3 || nargin > 6)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! isvector (i) || ! isvector (j))
+ error ("blksparse: i, j must be vectors");
+ elseif (ndims (sv) != 3)
+ error ("blksparse: sv must be a 3D array");
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin == 4 && ischar (m))
+ mode = m;
+ m = 0;
+ elseif (nargin < 6)
+ mode = "sum";
+ endif
+
+ if (strcmp (mode, "unique"))
+ summation = false;
+ elseif (strcmp (mode, "sum") || strcmp (mode, "summation"))
+ summation = true;
+ else
+ error ("blksparse: invalid mode: %s", mode);
+ endif
+
+ if (m == 0)
+ m = max (i);
+ endif
+ if (n == 0)
+ n = max (j);
+ endif
+
+ siz = [m, n];
+ ji = [j(:), i(:)];
+
+ [ji, fidx, ridx] = unique (ji, "rows");
+ j = ji(:,1);
+ i = ji(:,2);
+
+ if (summation)
+ sv = accumdim (ridx, sv, 3, rows (ji));
+ else
+ sv = sv(:,:,fidx);
+ endif
+
+ s = struct ("i", i, "j", j, "sv", sv, "siz", siz, "bsiz", size (sv)(1:2));
+ s = class (s, "blksparse");
+
+endfunction
+
+function ok = check_version ()
+ ok = compare_versions (version, "3.3.51", ">=");
+ if (! ok)
+ error ("blksparse: can only be used with Octave 3.3.51+");
+ endif
+endfunction