ellipse

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Dec-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:

|   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?

I don't have a strong opinion about this, so whatever you think is
best.

jwe