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.