ellipse

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi All,
  Some time ago there was a discussion on the help list about having a
function that plots an ellipse. The function was never completed, since
it lacked a few details for controlling the layout of things such as
bounding boxes, and major/minor axis of the ellipse. Attached is a IMHO
complete implementation of the function. It allows you to do things like

   ellipse (A, 1, shift)

which will plot an ellipse described by 'A' with center at 'shift'. But
you can also do more complicated things like

   ellipse (A, 1, shift, :, "k", "majoraxis", "g", "linewidth", 2,
"boundingbox", "b");

which will plot a black ellipse, with a green major axis of width 2, and
a blue bounding box.
  Should this function be added to core Octave, or should I put it in
one of the packages at Octave-Forge?

Soren

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