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+## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{yi} =} griddatan (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{xi}, @var{method}, @var{options})
+##
+## Generate a regular mesh from irregular data using interpolation.
+## The function is defined by @code{@var{y} = f (@var{x})}.
+## The interpolation points are all @var{xi}.
+##
+## The interpolation method can be @code{"nearest"} or @code{"linear"}.
+## If method is omitted it defaults to @code{"linear"}.
+## @seealso{griddata, delaunayn}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
+
+function yi = griddatan (x, y, xi, method, varargin)
+
+ if (nargin == 3)
+ method = "linear";
+ endif
+ if (nargin < 3)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (ischar (method))
+ method = tolower (method);
+ endif
+
+ [m, n] = size (x);
+ [mi, ni] = size (xi);
+
+ if (n != ni || size (y, 1) != m || size (y, 2) != 1)
+ error ("griddatan: dimensional mismatch");
+ endif
+
+ ## triangulate data
+ ## tri = delaunayn(x, varargin{:});
+ tri = delaunayn (x);
+
+ yi = NaN (mi, 1);
+
+ if (strcmp (method, "nearest"))
+ ## search index of nearest point
+ idx = dsearchn (x, tri, xi);
+ valid = !isnan (idx);
+ yi(valid) = y(idx(valid));
+
+ elseif (strcmp (method, "linear"))
+ ## search for every point the enclosing triangle
+ [tri_list, bary_list] = tsearchn (x, tri, xi);
+
+ ## only keep the points within triangles.
+ valid = !isnan (tri_list);
+ tri_list = tri_list(!isnan (tri_list));
+ bary_list = bary_list(!isnan (tri_list), :);
+ nr_t = rows (tri_list);
+
+ ## assign x,y for each point of simplex
+ xt = reshape (x(tri(tri_list,:),:), [nr_t, n+1, n]);
+ yt = y(tri(tri_list,:));
+
+ ## Use barycentric coordinate of point to calculate yi
+ yi(valid) = sum (y(tri(tri_list,:)) .* bary_list, 2);
+
+ else
+ error ("griddatan: unknown interpolation METHOD");
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!testif HAVE_QHULL
+%! [xx,yy] = meshgrid(linspace(-1,1,32));
+%! xi = [xx(:), yy(:)];
+%! x = (2 * rand(100,2) - 1);
+%! x = [x;1,1;1,-1;-1,-1;-1,1];
+%! y = sin(2*(sum(x.^2,2)));
+%! zz = griddatan(x,y,xi,'linear');
+%! zz2 = griddata(x(:,1),x(:,2),y,xi(:,1),xi(:,2),'linear');
+%! assert (zz, zz2, 1e-10)
+
+%!testif HAVE_QHULL
+%! [xx,yy] = meshgrid(linspace(-1,1,32));
+%! xi = [xx(:), yy(:)];
+%! x = (2 * rand(100,2) - 1);
+%! x = [x;1,1;1,-1;-1,-1;-1,1];
+%! y = sin(2*(sum(x.^2,2)));
+%! zz = griddatan(x,y,xi,'nearest');
+%! zz2 = griddata(x(:,1),x(:,2),y,xi(:,1),xi(:,2),'nearest');
+%! assert (zz, zz2, 1e-10)