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+## Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Kai Habel
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{y}] =} pol2cart (@var{theta}, @var{r})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}] =} pol2cart (@var{theta}, @var{r}, @var{z})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{y}] =} pol2cart (@var{p})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}] =} pol2cart (@var{p})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{C} =} pol2cart (@dots{})
+## Transform polar or cylindrical to Cartesian coordinates.
+##
+## @var{theta}, @var{r}, (and @var{z}) must be the same shape, or scalar.
+## @var{theta} describes the angle relative to the positive x-axis.
+## @var{r} is the distance to the z-axis (0, 0, z).
+## If called with a single matrix argument then each row of @var{p}
+## represents the polar/(cylindrical) coordinate (@var{x}, @var{y} (, @var{z})).
+##
+## If only a single return argument is requested then return a matrix
+## @var{C} where each row represents one Cartesian coordinate
+## (@var{x}, @var{y} (, @var{z})).
+## @seealso{cart2pol, sph2cart, cart2sph}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
+## Adapted-by: jwe
+
+function [x, y, z] = pol2cart (theta, r, z)
+
+ if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 3)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ if (ismatrix (theta) && (columns (theta) == 2 || columns (theta) == 3))
+ if (columns (theta) == 3)
+ z = theta(:,3);
+ else
+ z = [];
+ endif
+ r = theta(:,2);
+ theta = theta(:,1);
+ else
+ error ("pol2car: matrix input must have 2 or 3 columns [THETA, R (, Z)]");
+ endif
+ elseif (nargin == 2)
+ if (! ((ismatrix (theta) && ismatrix (r))
+ && (size_equal (theta, r) || isscalar (theta) || isscalar (r))))
+ error ("pol2cart: arguments must be matrices of same size, or scalar");
+ endif
+ elseif (nargin == 3)
+ if (! ((ismatrix (theta) && ismatrix (r) && ismatrix (z))
+ && (size_equal (theta, r) || isscalar (theta) || isscalar (r))
+ && (size_equal (theta, z) || isscalar (theta) || isscalar (z))
+ && (size_equal (r, z) || isscalar (r) || isscalar (z))))
+ error ("pol2cart: arguments must be matrices of same size, or scalar");
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ x = r .* cos (theta);
+ y = r .* sin (theta);
+
+ if (nargout <= 1)
+ x = [x, y, z];
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! t = [0, 0.5, 1] * pi;
+%! r = 1;
+%! [x, y] = pol2cart (t, r);
+%! assert (x, [1, 0, -1], sqrt(eps));
+%! assert (y, [0, 1, 0], sqrt(eps));
+
+%!test
+%! t = [0, 1, 1] * pi/4;
+%! r = sqrt(2) * [0, 1, 2];
+%! [x, y] = pol2cart (t, r);
+%! assert (x, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
+%! assert (y, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
+
+%!test
+%! t = [0, 1, 1] * pi/4;
+%! r = sqrt(2) * [0, 1, 2];
+%! z = [0, 1, 2];
+%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
+%! assert (x, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
+%! assert (y, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
+%! assert (z, z2);
+
+%!test
+%! t = 0;
+%! r = [0, 1, 2];
+%! z = [0, 1, 2];
+%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
+%! assert (x, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
+%! assert (y, [0, 0, 0], sqrt(eps));
+%! assert (z, z2);
+
+%!test
+%! t = [1, 1, 1]*pi/4;
+%! r = 1;
+%! z = [0, 1, 2];
+%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
+%! assert (x, [1, 1, 1] / sqrt(2), eps);
+%! assert (y, [1, 1, 1] / sqrt(2), eps);
+%! assert (z, z2);
+
+%!test
+%! t = 0;
+%! r = [1, 2, 3];
+%! z = 1;
+%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
+%! assert (x, [1, 2, 3], eps);
+%! assert (y, [0, 0, 0] / sqrt(2), eps);
+%! assert (z, z2);
+
+%!test
+%! P = [0, 0; pi/4, sqrt(2); pi/4, 2*sqrt(2)];
+%! C = [0, 0; 1, 1; 2, 2];
+%! assert (pol2cart(P), C, sqrt(eps));
+
+%!test
+%! P = [0, 0, 0; pi/4, sqrt(2), 1; pi/4, 2*sqrt(2), 2];
+%! C = [0, 0, 0; 1, 1, 1; 2, 2, 2];
+%! assert (pol2cart(P), C, sqrt(eps));
+