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% zigzag - generate traversal-through-matrix used by jpeg
%
% SYNOPSIS
%	zigzag
%	zigzag(N)
%
% DESCRIPTION
% 	The skew-diagonal-traversal-pattern of jpeg for an NxN matrix
%	is returned in an Nx2 matrix. N defaults to 8. The Nx2 matrix
%	contains the appropriate row and column indices (starting at 1).

% Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Darrel Hankerson and Greg A. Harris
%
% This file is part of the JPEGtool collection of scripts for Octave
% and Matlab; see http://www.dms.auburn.edu/compression
%
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function Z = zigzag(N)

if ~exist('N')
  N = 8;
end

Z = zeros(N,2);
u = 0; v = 2; inc = 1;

for n = 1:N*N
  v = v - inc; u = u + inc;
  if (u > N)
    v = v + 2; u = N; inc = -1;
  elseif (v == 0)
    v = 1; inc = -1;
  elseif (v > N)
    u = u + 2; v = N; inc = 1;
  elseif (u == 0)
    u = 1; inc = 1;
  end
  Z(n,:) = [v u];
end