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geom2d
by David Legland Geometry library for matlab. Performs geometric computations on points, lines, circles, polygons...
polygonSelfIntersections(poly, varargin)
function varargout = polygonSelfIntersections(poly, varargin)
%POLYGONSELFINTERSECTIONS Find-self intersection points of a polygon
%
% PTS = polygonSelfIntersections(POLY)
% Return the position of self intersection points
%
% [PTS POS1 POS2] = polygonSelfIntersections(POLY)
% Also return the 2 positions of each intersection point (the position
% when meeting point for first time, then position when meeting point
% for the second time).
%
% Example
% % use a '8'-shaped polygon
% poly = [10 0;0 0;0 10;20 10;20 20;10 20];
% polygonSelfIntersections(poly)
% ans =
% 10 10
%
% See also
% polygons2d, polylineSelfIntersections
%
% ------
% Author: David Legland
% e-mail: david.legland@grignon.inra.fr
% Created: 2009-06-15, using Matlab 7.7.0.471 (R2008b)
% Copyright 2009 INRA - Cepia Software Platform.
% HISTORY
% 2011-06-22 fix bug when removing origin vertex (thanks to Federico
% Bonelli)
tol = 1e-14;
% ensure the last point equals the first one
if sum(abs(poly(end, :)-poly(1,:)) < tol) ~= 2
poly = [poly; poly(1,:)];
end
% compute intersections by calling algo for polylines
[points pos1 pos2] = polylineSelfIntersections(poly);
% It may append that first vertex of polygon is detected as intersection,
% the following tries to detect this
n = size(poly, 1) - 1;
inds = (pos1 == 0 & pos2 == n) | (pos1 == n & pos2 == 0);
points(inds, :) = [];
pos1(inds) = [];
pos2(inds) = [];
% remove multiple intersections
[points I J] = unique(points, 'rows', 'first'); %#ok<NASGU>
pos1 = pos1(I);
pos2 = pos2(I);
%% Post-processing
% process output arguments
if nargout <= 1
varargout = {points};
elseif nargout == 3
varargout = {points, pos1, pos2};
end