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From: Ben <jbenjam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: 3-D polar plotting with discrete data points?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:18:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 22, 5:12=A0pm, rober...@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson)
wrote:
<snip>
> I'm not sure how you are going to convert to cartesian coordinates,
> though, as a 3D cartesian coordinate would normally be two angles
> and a distance; having three angles sounds like a 4D surface.

Thanks!  You've triggered my memory:   This is a spherical coordinates
to cartesian coordinates transformation, and meshgrid should
regularize the data points appropriately.

I'll follow the coordinate transformation rules outlined at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinate_system

Cheers,

-Ben