Re: Re: Ellipse equation simplification on Mathematica:
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- Subject: [mg76889] Re: [mg76830] Re: Ellipse equation simplification on Mathematica:
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 05:03:36 -0400 (EDT)
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On 28 May 2007, at 14:00, Narasimham wrote: > On May 19, 1:54 pm, Andrzej Kozlowski <a... at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: >> On 18 May 2007, at 19:06, Narasimham wrote: >> >>> Reference is made to: >> >>> http://groups.google.co.in/group/geometry.puzzles/browse_thread/ >>> threa... >> >>> Constant[c,d th,ph] ; >> >>> (* th, ph are spherical cords of tip of tube *) ; >> >>> cp = Cos[ph] ; sp = Sin[ph] ; cth = Cos[th] ; sth = Sin[th] ; >> >>> (* earlier typo corrected *) >> >>> d1 = Sqrt[(x + d cp cth + c )^2 + ( y + d cp sth )^2 + (d sp)^2 ] >> >>> d2 =Sqrt[(x - d cp cth - c )^2 + ( y - d cp sth )^2 + (d sp)^2 ] >> >>> FullSimplify[ d1 + d2 + 2 d - 2 a == 0] ; >> >>> When d = 0, algebraic/trigonometric simplification brings about >>> common ellipse form: >> >>> (x/a)^2 + y^2/(a^2-c^2) = 1 >> >>> Request help for bringing to standard form involving constants a,c >>> and the new tube length constant d. >> >>> Regards, >>> Narasimham >> >> I don't think such a form exists. Consider the following. >> >> id1 = {d1^2 - ((x + d*cp*cth + c)^2 + (y + d*cp*sth)^2 + (d*sp)^2), >> d2^2 - ((x - d*cp*cth - c)^2 + (y - d*cp*sth)^2 + (d*sp)^2), >> sp^2 + cp^2 - 1, sth^2 + cth^2 - 1}; >> >> id = Prepend[id1, d1 + d2 + 2 d - 2 a]; >> >> Now consdier first the case of the ellipse: >> >> d = 0; >> >> gr = GroebnerBasis[id, {x, y, a, c}, {cp, sp, cth, sth, d1, d2}, >> MonomialOrder -> EliminationOrder] >> {-a^4 + c^2 a^2 + x^2 a^2 + y^2 a^2 - c^2 x^2} >> >> This tells us that >> >> First[%] == 0 >> -a^4 + c^2*a^2 + x^2*a^2 + y^2*a^2 - c^2*x^2 == 0 >> >> is the equation of the ellipse, and this can be easily brought to >> standard form by hand. But now consider your "general" case: >> >> Clear[d] >> gr = GroebnerBasis[id, {x, y, a, c, d}, {cp, sp, cth, sth, d1, d2}, >> MonomialOrder -> EliminationOrder] >> {} >> >> This means that elimination cannot be performed and no "standard >> form" >> of the kind you had in mind exists. Unless of course there is a bug >> in GroebnerBasis (v. unlikely) or I have misunderstood what you had >> in mind. >> >> Andrzej Kozlowski > > I checked for case of tube parallel to x- or y-axis produces ellipses > and suspected validity even in 3-D general case. > > Narasimham > OK., now I see that I misundertood you and you wrote that cd,th, ph (and presumably a) are supposed to be constants, so you do not wish to eliminate them. But now one can easily prove that what you get is not, in general, an ellipse. In this situation Groebner basis works and you can obtain a rather horrible quartic equation of your surface: id1 = {d1^2 - ((x + d*cp*cth + c)^2 + (y + d*cp*sth)^2 + (d*sp)^2), d2^2 - ((x - d*cp*cth - c)^2 + (y - d*cp*sth)^2 + (d*sp)^2), sp^2 + cp^2 - 1, sth^2 + cth^2 - 1}; id = Prepend[id1, d1 + d2 + 2*d - 2*a]; v = GroebnerBasis[id, {x, y, a, c, cp, cth}, {sth, sp, d1, d2}, MonomialOrder -> EliminationOrder][[1]]; First[v] == 0 is the equation (I prefer not to include the output here). Looking at v see that the non zero coefficients are only the free coefficient, the coefficients of x^2, y^2, x^2 y^2, x^4 and y^4. So only in some cases you will get a quadratic (for example when the quartic happens to be a perfect square as in the case d=0, or when the free coefficient vanishes, as in the trivial case a=d, or when the coefficients of 4-degree terms vanish). One can work out all the cases when gets a quadratic but it is also easy to find those when one does not. For example, taking both th and ph to be 60 degrees (so that cth and cph are both 1/2) we get: v /. {cp -> 1/2, cth -> 1/2, d -> 4, a -> 2, c -> 1} y^4 - 48 x^2 y^2 + 120 y^2 + 3600 This is certianly is not the equation of an ellipse. Andrzej Kozlowski
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- Re: Ellipse equation simplification on Mathematica:
- From: Narasimham <mathma18@hotmail.com>
- Re: Ellipse equation simplification on Mathematica:
- From: Narasimham <mathma18@hotmail.com>
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