Re: Smallest enclosing circle
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- Subject: [mg50070] Re: [mg50062] Smallest enclosing circle
- From: "Janos D. Pinter" <jdpinter at hfx.eastlink.ca>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
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At 06:56 AM 8/13/2004, Steve Gray wrote: > Given n points in the plane, I want to find the smallest >enclosing circle. Does anyone have Mathematica code to do this? > I will be grateful for any tips. > >Steve Gray Steve this problem can be easily formulated - in arbitrary dimension - as a constrained convex optimization model. Then you can use e.g. NMinimize (or other optimization tools, incl. my software products) to solve it. Regards, Janos _________________________________________________ Janos D. Pinter, PhD, DSc President & Research Scientist, PCS Inc. Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University 129 Glenforest Drive, Halifax, NS, Canada B3M 1J2 Telephone: +1-(902)-443-5910 Fax: +1-(902)-431-5100; +1-(902)-443-5910 E-mail: jdpinter at hfx.eastlink.ca Web: www.pinterconsulting.com www.dal.ca/~jdpinter
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- From: Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net>
- Smalest enclosing circle