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## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Kurt Hornik
##
## This program 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 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
## usage: cross (x, y)
##
## Computes the vector cross product of the two 3-dimensional vectors
## x and y.
## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Created: 15 October 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
function z = cross (x, y)
if (nargin != 2)
usage ("cross (x, y)");
endif
if (! (is_vec (x) && length (x) == 3
&& is_vec (y) && length (y) == 3))
error ("cross: both x and y must be 3-dimensional vectors");
endif
x = reshape (x, 3, 1);
y = reshape (y, 3, 1);
e = eye (3, 3);
for k = 1 : 3
z(k) = det ([x y e(:, k)]);
endfor
endfunction