Distance between points and ellipse

Compute the distances between an ellipse and an arbitrary number of points, in 3D

https://github.com/rodyo/FEX-distancePointEllipse

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The solution to the problem of calculating the distance between an ellipse and a point is less than straightforward. The problem can be solved analytically however, which boild down to solving a quartic equation in cos(f), with (f) the true anomaly on the ellipse.
This submission implements this and computes the distances between any 3-D ellipse and an arbitrary number of 3-D points.
This is part of:
Ik-Sung Kim: "An algorithm for finding the distance between two ellipses". Commun. Korean Math. Soc. 21 (2006), No.3, pp.559-567
See also my other submission, distanceEllipseEllipse.

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Rody Oldenhuis (2026). Distance between points and ellipse (https://github.com/rodyo/FEX-distancePointEllipse/releases/tag/v1.4), GitHub. Retrieved .

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