POWEL=POWEr ELlipse

ellipse, diamond, rectoid or boat, obtuse or sharp angles. Flexible shape for data selection or anno

Description

a mirror-symmetrical x-y line defined as
    (|x/radx|)^powx+(|y/rady|)^powy = 1
 Combines ellipse, oval, rectangle, diamond and boat shapes

output is either handle to graph object or object vertices, if no plot needed

Uses CLINE from FEX

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)
• Other requirements: CLINE.M from File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=5754&objectType=file

[Ragnar Danneskjöld]

It seems silly to force the user to also download cline, which does not do anything better than plot does.

[Ragnar Danneskjöld]

Also, I want to create a shape that is centered around [1,2]. The picture shows that this tool can do it, but all of the shapes are around zero with this. What good is it?

[Ragnar Danneskjöld]

The help is impossible to read.

[Vassili Pastushenko]

Ragnar:
Yes. Every language is silly except of English, because I speak English.

 You may use LINE instead of CLINE. I do not force anybody. I just tell where I have descibed my abbreviation. Instead of CLINE(z) where z is a two column matrix or a complex vector you may write LINE(z(:,1),z(:,2)) or PLOT(z(:,1),z(:,2)).

With LINE (or PLOT) you have to type long words 'linewidth', 'markersize' etc. The aim of CLINE was to save extra efforts. I am simply lazy.

You want to put your shape in some point other than origin? If z = a complex vector x+1i*y, before calling CLINE add your point z0 to z. You can do this also with PLOT.

I am sorry that you cannot read help. I thought you can read English, although your accent is very pronounced.

[Baldassare Cossa]

So if you are too lazy to make this easy to use, then why we should go to the effort to download it? Then we must change your code to make it werk? You are too lazy? Maybe too lazy to write good code?

Bad help too.

Can this make a hexagon?

[V P]

You can make a hexagon and many other shapes using my STAR. It can also plot the line or patch around point(s) which you specify.

It is not difficult to include z0 into list of inputs. However this can be easily done by those who really need it. I am too lazy to supply trivial options.

[V P]

You can make a hexagon and many other shapes using my STAR. It can also plot the line or patch around point(s) which you specify.

It is not difficult to include z0 into list of inputs. However this can be easily done by those who really need it. I am too lazy to supply trivial options.

[V P]

You can make a hexagon and many other shapes using my STAR. It can also plot the line or patch around point(s) which you specify.

It is not difficult to include z0 into list of inputs. However this can be easily done by those who really need it. I am too lazy to supply trivial options.

[Duane Hanselman]

It seems as though you should either be less lazy and fix/improve what folks are suggesting, or be more lazy and not submit files that confirm your laziness.