Re: Ellipse Drawing
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg40189] Re: Ellipse Drawing
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:47:38 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
something like:
ellipse[a_, b_, phi_, point_] := Module[{th},
Line[Append[#, 0] + point & /@ ({{Cos[phi], Sin[phi]},
{-Sin[phi], Cos[phi]}}.# & /@
Table[{a*Cos[th], b*Sin[th]}, {th, 0, 2Pi, 2Pi/36}])]
]
Show[Graphics3D[
Table[ellipse[2, 1, th, {0, 0, th}], {th, 0, Pi, Pi/8}]]]
Regards
Jens
caroline nyhan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question concerning using mathematica to draw
> the cross-sectional pattern of the polarisation
> ellipse.
>
> I want to know how I would draw an ellipse, in the XY
> plane, with propagation in the positive z-direction,
> by specifying its
> - azimuth (angle that the major axis of the
> cross-sectional ellipse makes with the horizontal
> x-axis (positive when counterclockwise from x-axis))
> - ellipticity (measure of the fatness of the ellipse,
> (ratio of the lengh of the semi-minor axis to that of
> the semi-major axis))
>
> Thanks
> Caroline
>
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