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The above image was generated using Maple software in both spherical and cartesian coordinates:

Spherical Coordinates:

plot3d([ sin(2*phi)*cos(2*theta), theta, Phi], theta=0..2*Pi, phi=0..Pi, axes=BOXED, coords=spherical, grid=[80,80],lightmodel=light1) http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=4012&view=html

Cartesian Coordinates: (same figure)

plot3d([ rad*sin(theta)sin(phi), radcos(theta)sin(phi), radcos(phi)], theta=0..2*Pi, phi=0..Pi,axes=BOXED, grid=[40,40],lightmodel=light1);

How can this be graphed on Wolfram-Alpha? I tried: 3D parametric plot [ { sin(2*phi)*cos(2*theta), theta, Phi }, {u,0,2*Pi},{v,0,2*Pi}] and something is wrong. I think wolfram alpha doesn't realize this is meant to be spherical coordinates.

I tried using the "cartesian" equation from Maple in the same 3D Paramtric plot, and here is what happened. I am not sure what rad is meant to be, but WA is interpreting it as radians.

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It's explicitly written in the maplesoft link that

rad = Sin[2 phi] Cos[2 theta]

so

ParametricPlot3D[Sin[2 phi] Cos[2 theta] {Sin[theta] Sin[phi], 
Cos[theta] Sin[phi], Cos[phi]}, {theta, 0, 2 Pi}, {phi, 0, Pi}]

produces

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