ellipse


ellipse, a Python code which carries out geometric calculations for ellipses and ellipsoids, including area, distance to a point, eccentricity, perimeter, points along the perimeter, random sampling, conversion between standard and quadratic forms.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

ellipse 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 10 November 2022.