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Ellipsoid[p,{r1,…}]
represents an axis-aligned ellipsoid centered at the point p and with semiaxes lengths ri.
Ellipsoid[p,Σ]
represents an ellipsoid centered at p and weight matrix Σ.
Details and OptionsAn axis-aligned ellipsoid in 3D:
Scope (20) Graphics (10) Specification (4)An axis-aligned ellipsoid in 3D:
Styling (4)Balls with different specular exponents:
Opacity specifies the face opacity:
Coordinates (2)Specify coordinates by fractions of the plot range:
Specify scaled offsets from the ordinary coordinates:
Regions (10)Embedding dimension is the dimension of the space in which the ball lives:
Geometric dimension is the dimension of the shape itself:
Get conditions for point membership:
The distance to the nearest point for an ellipse:
Signed distance to an ellipse:
Nearest points to an enclosing sphere:
Integrate over an ellipsoid region:
Optimize over an ellipsoid region:
Solve equations in an ellipsoid region:
Applications (4)A spheroid is an ellipsoid with two equal axes:
Total mass for an ellipsoid region with density given by :
Find the mass of methanol in an Ellipsoid:
Mass of methanol in the ellipsoid:
Find a bounding Ellipsoid to a region's bounding box:
Compute a bounding ellipsoid to the bounding box:
Compute the difference in Volume of the bounding solids:
Properties & Relations (4) Neat Examples (2)Sweep an ellipsoid around an axis:
Wolfram Research (2014), Ellipsoid, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Ellipsoid.html. TextWolfram Research (2014), Ellipsoid, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Ellipsoid.html.
CMSWolfram Language. 2014. "Ellipsoid." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Ellipsoid.html.
APAWolfram Language. (2014). Ellipsoid. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Ellipsoid.html
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