Spherical Vector Field and its Flow

The following components of a vector field in R³ at any point (x,y,z) of the 2-sphere S² will be projected to the tangent space of S² at this point and normalized to get unit speed integral curves. That's the way we construct a vector field on S² based on the field in R³!
Please use standard C notation for math, x, y and z for the coordinates. Any other notation will produce an unknown variable error!

Initial points of integral curves need not lie on the 2-sphere S²; they will be normalized by radial projection.

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Gnuplot graphics! Vector field and some of its Trajectories
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