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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
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+##
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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} sombrero (@var{n})
+## Produce the familiar three-dimensional sombrero plot using @var{n}
+## grid lines. If @var{n} is omitted, a value of 41 is assumed.
+##
+## The function plotted is
+##
+## @example
+## z = sin (sqrt (x^2 + y^2)) / (sqrt (x^2 + y^2))
+## @end example
+## @seealso{surf, meshgrid, mesh}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function [x, y, z] = sombrero (n)
+
+ if (nargin == 0)
+ n = 41;
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin < 2)
+ if (n > 1)
+ tx = linspace (-8, 8, n)';
+ ty = tx;
+ [xx, yy] = meshgrid (tx, ty);
+ r = sqrt (xx .^ 2 + yy .^ 2) + eps;
+ tz = sin (r) ./ r;
+ if (nargout == 0)
+ surf (tx, ty, tz);
+ box ("off");
+ else
+ x = tx;
+ y = ty;
+ z = tz;
+ endif
+ else
+ error ("sombrero: number of grid lines must be greater than 1");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!demo
+%! clf
+%! sombrero ();