Re: ellipse

[Søren Hauberg]

tor, 29 01 2009 kl. 13:27 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> On  1-Dec-2008, Soren 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.

Does anybody have strong opinions here? Is this a core plotting
function, or is it a specialised plot? For me, it's something I do quite
often, but that just might be because I do quite a bit of statistics...

Soren