## Copyright (C) 2000  Kai Habel
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} [@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}] = sph2cart (@var{theta}, @var{phi}, @var{r})
## Transform spherical to cartesian 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).
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{pol2cart, cart2pol, cart2sph}

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

function [X, Y, Z] = sph2cart (Theta, Phi, R)

  if (nargin != 3)
    usage ("[X, Y, Z] = sph2cart (Theta, Phi, R)");
  endif

  if ((! (ismatrix (Theta) && ismatrix (Phi) && ismatrix (R)))
      || size (Theta) != size (Phi)
      || size (Theta) != size (R))
    error ("sph2cart: arguments must be matrices of same size");
  endif

  X = R .* cos (Phi) .* cos (Theta);
  Y = R .* cos (Phi) .* sin (Theta);
  Z = R .* sin (Phi);

endfunction