Back to the trenches with me. I'm starting with a 2d space till i can wrap my head around it. The code and examples i am finding are not matching up in 3d space. Here's my closest attempt which still is wrong. Can anyone help? 
# 2 points on a plane
my $x = 2;
my $y = 1;
#yang is the y-angle 0-360 i want to rotate by
my $yang = 45;
#convert yang to radians
$yang = 3.14159265358979*$yang/180;
#rad is the radius of my sphere
my $rad = sqrt($x**2 + $y**2);
my $x = cos($yang)*$rad;
my $y = sin($yang)*$rad;
print "x=$x\ny=$y\n";

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Advice appreciated.
jtrue

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