%% Spherical Surface Harmonic 
% By Denise L. Chen  9-1-93.
%
% Spherical harmonics are the spherical version of Fourier series. They can
% be used to model the free oscillations of the earth.
%                                            
% The image pictured is the spherical harmonic of degree 6, order 1, and
% amplitude 2 plotted on the surface of a sphere of radius 5.

% Copyright 1984-2004 The MathWorks, Inc.
% $Revision: 5.12.4.1 $  $Date: 2004/03/02 21:47:04 $

% Define constants.
degree = 6;
order = 1;

% Create the grid
delta = pi/40;
theta = 0 : delta : pi; % altitude
phi = 0 : 2*delta : 2*pi; % azimuth
[phi,theta] = meshgrid(phi,theta);

% Calculate the harmonic
Ymn = legendre(degree,cos(theta(:,1)));
Ymn = Ymn(order+1,:)';
yy = Ymn;
for kk = 2: size(theta,1)
    yy = [yy Ymn];
end;
yy = yy.*cos(order*phi);

order = max(max(abs(yy)));
rho = 5 + 2*yy/order;

% Apply spherical coordinate equations
r = rho.*sin(theta);
x = r.*cos(phi);    % spherical coordinate equations
y = r.*sin(phi);
z = rho.*cos(theta);

% Plot the surface
surf(x,y,z)
light
lighting phong
axis('square')
axis([-5 5 -5 5 -5 5])
axis('off')
view(40,30)