## Copyright (C) 2007  David Bateman  <dbateman@free.fr>
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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 'nearest' or 'linear'. If method is 
## omitted it defaults to 'linear'.
## @seealso{griddata, delaunayn}
## @end deftypefn

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
    method
    error("griddatan: unknown interpolation method");
  endif

endfunction

%!test
%! [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)

%!test
%! [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)