MATLAB: Plotting multi-radius spherical mesh

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I'm attempting to plot a mesh which represents a sphere sectioned into 12 logitudinal and 22 latitudinal segments. The difficultly is that each of the segments has a different radius to show it's importance. I have used the code below to draw the sphere but can not work out how to impose the importance onto the mesh points. The commented code if used with phi and theta of lengths 12, and 22 respectively gives me points, I however, wanted the whole segment surface.
    out=double(int32(rand(22,12)*9));
  % phi=linspace(0,pi,12);
  % theta=linspace(0,2*pi,22);
  phi=linspace(0,pi,13);
  theta=linspace(0,2*pi,23);
  [phi,theta]=meshgrid(phi,theta);
for i = 1:22
    for j=1:12
%         x=out.*sin(phi).*cos(theta);
%         y=out.*sin(phi).*sin(theta);
%         z=out.*cos(phi);
        x=out.*sin(phi).*cos(theta);
        y=out.*sin(phi).*sin(theta);
        z=out.*cos(phi);
    end
end
mesh(x,y,z)

Best Answer

For any one that is interested I have used the following code to anwser the question;
out=double(int32(rand(22,12)*9));
phi=linspace(0,pi,13);
theta=linspace(0,2*pi,23);
phi=[phi; phi];
theta=[theta; theta];
phi=reshape(phi,1,2*length(phi));
theta=reshape(theta,1,2*length(theta));
[phi,theta]=meshgrid(phi,theta);
r = zeros(size(phi,1),size(phi,2));
for i = 1:12
    for j=1:22
        r(j*2:j*2+1,i*2:i*2+1) = out(j,i);
    end
end
x=r.*sin(phi).*cos(theta);
y=r.*sin(phi).*sin(theta);
z=r.*cos(phi);
mesh(x,y,z)
axis square
axis off
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