Distance from points to an ellipse

Version 1.3.0.0 (2.16 KB) by Matthew Arthington
This function can calculate the geometric distance from one or more points to an ellipse in 2D.
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Updated 11 Jan 2010

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This function uses a dumb search to find the minimum distance between a point (or many points) and an ellipse. It has controllable accuracy which may be reduced for faster computation.

*Update 12 Jan 2010: Rody Oldenhuis has submitted a version of this file (possibly only for versions >=Matlab 2009a) that works for general 3D ellipses and should be more efficient than this one. Please see acknowledgements below.

*Update 08 Jan 2010: fixed a bug in original file

Cite As

Matthew Arthington (2024). Distance from points to an ellipse (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/26261-distance-from-points-to-an-ellipse), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2008b
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Version Published Release Notes
1.3.0.0

Added a link to point to a file that has been uploaded in response to my original description, which said that there exists a more efficient method than this, but it has not been implemented yet.
1.1.0.0

Fixed a bug in original file.
1.0.0.0