## Copyright (C) 2003-2011 David Legland <david.legland@grignon.inra.fr>
## Copyright (C) 2012 Adapted to Octave by Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{point} =} polygonPoint (@var{poly}, @var{pos})
## Extract a point from a polygon
## @seealso{polygons2d, polylinePoint}
## @end deftypefn

function point = polygonPoint(poly, pos)

  # eventually copy first point at the end to ensure closed polygon
  if sum(poly(end, :)==poly(1,:))~=2
      poly = [poly; poly(1,:)];
  end

  # number of points to compute
  Np = length(pos(:));

  # number of vertices in polygon
  Nv = size(poly, 1)-1;

  # allocate memory results
  point = zeros(Np, 2);

  # iterate on points
  for i=1:Np
      # compute index of edge (between 0 and Nv)
      ind = floor(pos(i));
      
      # special case of last point of polyline
      if ind==Nv
          point(i,:) = poly(end,:);
          continue;
      end
      
      # format index to ensure being on polygon
      ind = min(max(ind, 0), Nv-1);
      
      # position on current edge
      t = min(max(pos(i)-ind, 0), 1);
      
      # parameters of current edge
      x0 = poly(ind+1, 1);
      y0 = poly(ind+1, 2);
      dx = poly(ind+2,1)-x0;
      dy = poly(ind+2,2)-y0;
      
      # compute position of current point
      point(i, :) = [x0+t*dx, y0+t*dy];
  end
endfunction