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[project @ 2007-07-23 16:59:00 by dbateman]
author dbateman
date Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:00:55 +0000
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## Copyright (C) 2000  Kai Habel
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{theta}, @var{phi}, @var{r}] =} cart2sph (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
## Transform cartesian to spherical coordinates.
## @var{x}, @var{y} and @var{z} must be of same shape.
## @var{theta} describes the angle relative to the x - axis.
## @var{phi} is the angle relative to the xy - plane.
## @var{r} is the distance to the origin (0, 0, 0).
## @seealso{pol2cart, cart2pol, sph2cart}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
## Adapted-by: jwe

function [Theta, Phi, R] = cart2sph (X, Y, Z)

  if (nargin != 3)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if ((! (ismatrix (X) && ismatrix (Y) && ismatrix (Z)))
      || (! size_equal (X, Y))
      || (! size_equal (X, Z)))
    error ("cart2sph: arguments must be matrices of same size");
  endif

  Theta = atan2 (Y, X);
  Phi = atan2 (Z, sqrt (X .^ 2 + Y .^ 2));
  R = sqrt (X .^ 2 + Y .^ 2 + Z .^ 2);

endfunction