## Copyright (C) 2007 Kai Habel, David Bateman
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} slice (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{v}, @var{sx}, @var{sy}, @var{sz})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} slice (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{v}, @var{xi}, @var{yi}, @var{zi})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} slice (@var{v}, @var{sx}, @var{sy}, @var{sz})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} slice (@var{v}, @var{xi}, @var{yi}, @var{zi})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} slice (@dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} slice (@dots{}, @var{method})
## Plot slices of 3D data/scalar fields. Each element of the 3-dimensional 
## array @var{v} represents a scalar value at a location given by the
## parameters @var{x}, @var{y}, and @var{z}. The parameters @var{x},
## @var{x}, and @var{z} are either 3-dimensional arrays of the same size
## as the array @var{v} in the "meshgrid" format or vectors. The
## parameters @var{xi}, etc respect a similar format to @var{x}, etc,
## and they represent the points at which the array @var{vi} is
## interpolated using interp3. The vectors @var{sx}, @var{sy}, and
## @var{sz} contain points of orthogonal slices of the respective axes.
##
## If @var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z} are omitted, they are assumed to be 
## @code{x = 1:size (@var{v}, 2)}, @code{y = 1:size (@var{v}, 1)} and
## @code{z = 1:size (@var{v}, 3)}. 
##
## @var{Method} is one of:
##
## @table @code
## @item "nearest"
## Return the nearest neighbour.
## @item "linear"
## Linear interpolation from nearest neighbours.
## @item "cubic"
## Cubic interpolation from four nearest neighbours (not implemented yet).
## @item "spline"
## Cubic spline interpolation---smooth first and second derivatives
## throughout the curve.
## @end table
##
## The default method is @code{"linear"}.
## The optional return value @var{h} is a vector of handles to the
## surface graphic objects.
##
## Examples:
## @example
## [x, y, z] = meshgrid (linspace (-8, 8, 32));
## v = sin (sqrt (x.^2 + y.^2 + z.^2)) ./ (sqrt (x.^2 + y.^2 + z.^2));
## slice (x, y, z, v, [], 0, []);
## [xi, yi] = meshgrid (linspace (-7, 7));
## zi = xi + yi;
## slice (x, y, z, v, xi, yi, zi);
## @end example
## @seealso{interp3, surface, pcolor}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>

function h = slice (varargin)

  method = "linear";
  extrapval = NA;
  nargs = nargin;

  if (ischar (varargin{end}))
    method = varargin{end};
    nargs -= 1;
  endif

  if (nargs == 4)
    v = varargin{1};
    if (ndims (v) != 3)
      error ("slice: expect 3-dimensional array of values");
    endif
    [nx, ny, nz] = size (v);
    [x, y, z] = meshgrid (1:nx, 1:ny, 1:nz);
    sx = varargin{2};
    sy = varargin{3};
    sz = varargin{4};
  elseif (nargs == 7)
    v = varargin{4};
    if (ndims (v) != 3)
      error ("slice: expect 3-dimensional array of values");
    endif
    x = varargin{1};
    y = varargin{2};
    z = varargin{3};
    if (all ([isvector(x), isvector(y), isvector(z)]))
      [x, y, z] = meshgrid (x, y, z);
    elseif (ndims (x) == 3 && size_equal (x, y) && size_equal (x, z))
      ## Do nothing.
    else
      error ("slice: X, Y, Z size mismatch")
    endif
    sx = varargin{5};
    sy = varargin{6};
    sz = varargin{7};
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (any ([isvector(sx), isvector(sy), isvector(sz)]))
    have_sval = true;
  elseif (ndims(sx) == 2 && size_equal (sx, sy) && size_equal (sx, sz))
    have_sval = false;
  else
    error ("slice: dimensional mismatch for (XI, YI, ZI) or (SX, SY, SZ)");
  endif

  newplot ();
  ax = gca ();
  sidx = 1;
  maxv = max (v(:));
  minv = min (v(:));
  set (ax, "clim", [minv, maxv]);

  if (have_sval)
    ns = length (sx) + length (sy) + length (sz);
    hs = zeros(ns,1);
    [ny, nx, nz] = size (v);
    if (length(sz) > 0)
      for i = 1:length(sz)
        [xi, yi, zi] = meshgrid (squeeze (x(1,:,1)),
				 squeeze (y(:,1,1)), sz(i));
        vz = squeeze (interp3 (x, y, z, v, xi, yi, zi, method));
        tmp(sidx++) = surface (xi, yi, sz(i) * ones (size (yi)), vz);
      endfor
    endif

    if (length (sy) > 0)
      for i = length(sy):-1:1
	[xi, yi, zi] = meshgrid (squeeze (x(1,:,1)), sy(i), squeeze (z(1,1,:)));
        vy = squeeze (interp3 (x, y, z, v, xi, yi, zi, method));
        tmp(sidx++) = surface (squeeze (xi),
			       squeeze (sy(i) * ones (size (zi))),
			       squeeze (zi), vy);
      endfor
    endif

    if (length (sx) > 0)
      for i = length(sx):-1:1
        [xi, yi, zi] = meshgrid (sx(i), squeeze (y(:,1,1)), squeeze (z(1,1,:)));
        vx = squeeze (interp3 (x, y, z, v, xi, yi, zi, method));
        tmp(sidx++) = surface (squeeze (sx(i) * ones (size (zi))),
			       squeeze (yi), squeeze(zi), vx);
      endfor
    endif
  else
    vi = interp3 (x, y, z, v, sx, sy, sz);
    tmp(sidx++) = surface (sx, sy, sz, vi);
  endif

  if (! ishold ())
    set (ax, "view", [-37.5, 30.0]);
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction