Re: sph2cart added functionality

[Ben Abbott]

On May 24, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Rik wrote:

> 5/24/10
> 
> I was doing some GPS calculations and I had occasion to switch between
> spherical and Cartesian coordinates.  The interface for sph2cart is:
> 
> [X, Y, Z] = sph2cart (THETA, PHI, R)
> 
> However, I find it more convenient to think of triplets in one vector space
> being converted to triplets in another space.  For this it would be easier
> if I could call sph2cart with matrix arguments and receive matrix return
> arguments.
> 
> Is there any problem with adding the ability to call sph2cart on matrices
> with column 1 = THETA, column 2 = PHI, column 3 = R?  This would add
> additional functionality beyond the MATLAB function of the same name, but
> wouldn't take away the ability to replace the Octave function one-for-one
> in MATLAB code.
> 
> --Rik

I don't have a problem with the idea. For consistency, I assume you'd modify 
cart2sph, cart2pol, & pol2cart to behave similarly?

Ben