Re: drawing tilted ellipses?
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- Subject: [mg20504] Re: [mg20412] drawing tilted ellipses?
- From: Jean-Marie Thomas <jmt at agat.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 02:05:02 -0400
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You could use a polar definition :
r=1/(1+1/2 Cos[theta+Pi/6])
<<Graphics`Graphics`
PolarPlot[r,{theta,0,2 Pi}]
jmt
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Joe Strout wrote:
> Is it possible to draw an ellipse in Mathematica that is not orthogonal
> to the XY axes? E.g., leaning over 30 degrees?
>
> I thought perhaps I could specify it orthogonally and then apply a
> rotation transformation, but the only transformations available seem to
> be scaling (Scaled) and translation (Offset).
>
> Of course I could use a series of line segments, but I want this to be
> smooth even when printed on a high-resolution printer. Any tips?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Joe
>
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