Re: Plotting a super ellipse
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- Subject: [mg55185] Re: Plotting a super ellipse
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:36:00 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Washington
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Peter, The OP was interested in plotting a super ellipse. The problem with your approach is that the output looks nothing like a super ellipse. The correct approach to eliminating the complex numbers that arise when taking a negative number to the power 2.5 is to wrap the variables themselves in Abs, and not the whole left hand side. Carl Woll "Peter Pein" <petsie at arcor.de> wrote in message news:d15rlm$9hq$1 at smc.vnet.net... > JC wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:20:38 +0000 (UTC), Peter Pein <petsie at arcor.de> >> wrote: > ... >>>Hi JC, >>> >>>use ImplicitPlot to plot implicitely ;-) and Abs[] to avoid imaginary >>>Parts (e.g. (-1)^(2.5)) >>> >>>ImplicitPlot[Abs[(x^2.5) + (y^2.5/1.25^2.5)] == 20., {x, -4, 4}, {y, -5, >>>5}] >> >> >> Peter, >> >> Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. >> >> Your suggestion, while not generating an error message, also did not >> plot. This is what it returned: >> >> ImplicitPlot[ >> Abs[x\^2.5` + 0.5724334022399462`\ y\^2.5`] == 20.`, {x, \(-4\), >> 4}, {y, \(-5\), 5}]\) >> >> > > Sorry, again and again I forget: I've put <<Graphics` into my init.m > file. Enter <<Graphics`ImplicitPlot` or just <<Graphics` _before_ > invoking ImplicitPlot[]. >