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[azimuth,elevation,r] = cart2sph(X,Y,Z)
[azimuth,elevation,r] = cart2sph(X,Y,Z) transforms Cartesian coordinates stored in corresponding elements of arrays X, Y, and Z into spherical coordinates. azimuth and elevation are angular displacements in radians measured from the positive x-axis, and the x-y plane, respectively; and r is the distance from the origin to a point.
Arrays X, Y, and Z must be the same size (or any of them can be scalar).
The mapping from three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates is
azimuth = atan2(y,x) elevation = atan2(z,sqrt(x.^2 + y.^2)) r = sqrt(x.^2 + y.^2 + z.^2)
The notation for spherical coordinates is not standard. For the cart2sph function, elevation is measured from the x-y plane. Notice that if elevation = 0, the point is in the x-y plane. If elevation = pi/2, then the point is on the positive z-axis.
cart2pol | pol2cart | sph2cart
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