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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Kurt Hornik
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cross (@var{x}, @var{y})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} cross (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{dim})
+## Compute the vector cross product of two 3-dimensional vectors
+## @var{x} and @var{y}.
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## cross ([1,1,0], [0,1,1])
+## @result{} [ 1; -1; 1 ]
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## If @var{x} and @var{y} are matrices, the cross product is applied
+## along the first dimension with 3 elements. The optional argument
+## @var{dim} forces the cross product to be calculated along
+## the specified dimension.
+## @seealso{dot, curl, divergence}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
+## Created: 15 October 1994
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+
+function z = cross (x, y, dim)
+
+ if (nargin != 2 && nargin != 3)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (ndims (x) < 3 && ndims (y) < 3 && nargin < 3)
+ ## COMPATIBILITY -- opposite behaviour for cross(row,col)
+ ## Swap x and y in the assignments below to get the matlab behaviour.
+ ## Better yet, fix the calling code so that it uses conformant vectors.
+ if (columns (x) == 1 && rows (y) == 1)
+ warning ("cross: taking cross product of column by row");
+ y = y.';
+ elseif (rows (x) == 1 && columns (y) == 1)
+ warning ("cross: taking cross product of row by column");
+ x = x.';
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin == 2)
+ dim = find (size (x) == 3, 1);
+ if (isempty (dim))
+ error ("cross: must have at least one dimension with 3 elements");
+ endif
+ else
+ if (size (x, dim) != 3)
+ error ("cross: dimension DIM must have 3 elements");
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ nd = ndims (x);
+ sz = size (x);
+ idx2 = idx3 = idx1 = {':'}(ones (1, nd));
+ idx1(dim) = 1;
+ idx2(dim) = 2;
+ idx3(dim) = 3;
+
+ if (size_equal (x, y))
+ x1 = x(idx1{:});
+ x2 = x(idx2{:});
+ x3 = x(idx3{:});
+ y1 = y(idx1{:});
+ y2 = y(idx2{:});
+ y3 = y(idx3{:});
+ z = cat (dim, (x2.*y3 - x3.*y2), (x3.*y1 - x1.*y3), (x1.*y2 - x2.*y1));
+ else
+ error ("cross: X and Y must have the same dimensions");
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! x = [1 0 0];
+%! y = [0 1 0];
+%! r = [0 0 1];
+%! assert(cross(x, y), r, 2e-8);
+
+%!test
+%! x = [1 2 3];
+%! y = [4 5 6];
+%! r = [(2*6-3*5) (3*4-1*6) (1*5-2*4)];
+%! assert(cross(x, y), r, 2e-8);
+
+%!test
+%! x = [1 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 1];
+%! y = [0 1 0; 0 0 1; 1 0 0];
+%! r = [0 0 1; 1 0 0; 0 1 0];
+%! assert(cross(x, y, 2), r, 2e-8);
+%! assert(cross(x, y, 1), -r, 2e-8);
+
+%!error cross(0,0);
+%!error cross();
+