ellipsoid


ellipsoid, a MATLAB code which carries out geometric calculations for ellipsoids, including area, random sampling, and volume.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

ellipsoid is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

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Last revised on 06 January 2022.