Re: ellipse

[Søren Hauberg]

lor, 31 01 2009 kl. 16:58 -0600, skrev Daniel J Sebald:
> I'd say that a routine like this, as nice as it is and as convenient
> as it is, shouldn't be in Octave itself based on its lack of
> generality.  It's very directed toward statistics.  Someone wanting an
> ellipse for some other reason might have a hard time following the
> relationship between eigenvectors and eigenvalues and covariance
> matrices, etc.  "shift" and "level" would leave people wondering.

Well, there is certainly some truth in these statements.

Perhaps such a function like this should simply accept a center, and a
major and a minor axis for the ellipse? From a statistics point of view,
such an API would still be fairly easy to use.

Soren