lipper: Ellipse calculator

In geophys: Geophysics, Continuum Mechanics, Gravity Modeling

Description

Return parametric version of ellipse from equation of an ellipse.

Usage

lipper(a, b, c, d = 0, f = 0, g = -1)

Arguments

a	numeric
b	numeric
c	numeric
d	numeric
f	numeric
g	numeric

Details

General quadratic equation is, a x^2 + 2 b x y + c y^2 + 2 d x + 2 f y + g = 0

Value

vector=c(ap, bp, phi)

Author(s)

Jonathan M. Lees<[e-mail]>

References

<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Ellipse.html>

Examples

LIP = lipper(10, 3, 9)

theta  = seq(from=0, to=2*pi, length=360)

        phi = LIP[3]
        px = LIP[1]*cos(theta)*cos(phi)-  LIP[2]*sin(theta)*sin(phi)
        py = LIP[1]*cos(theta)*sin(phi) + LIP[2]*sin(theta)*cos(phi)


plot(px, py, type='p', asp=1)
lines(px, py)

geophys documentation built on May 1, 2019, 9:26 p.m.