function M = load_image(type, n, options)

% load_image - load benchmark images.
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%   M = load_image(name, n, options);
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%   name can be:
%   Synthetic images:
%       'chessboard1', 'chessboard', 'square', 'disk', 'quaterdisk', '3contours', 'line',
%       'line_vertical', 'line_horizontal', 'line_diagonal', 'line_circle',
%       'parabola', 'sin', 'phantom'
%   Natural images:
%       'boat', 'lena', 'goldhill', 'mandrill', 'maurice', 'polygons_blurred'.
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%   Copyright (c) 2004 Gabriel Peyr