ellipse_distance

ellipse_distance, an Octave code which estimates the typical distance between a pair of points randomly selected on the perimeter of an ellipse (x/a)^2+(y/b)^2=1.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

ellipse_distance is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version

Related Data and Programs:

ellipse_distance_test

octave_distance, an Octave code which estimates the typical distance between a pair of points randomly selected from the surface or interior of a geometric object such as a circle, disk, sphere, cube.

Source Code:

• ellipse_distance_histogram.m, displays a histogram from N samples of pairwise distances.
• ellipse_distance_stats.m, estimates the mean and variance of the pairwise distance, using sampling.
• ellipse_sample.m, returns N random points on a given ellipse.