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Quick computation of the distance between a point and an ellipse
L. M
AISONOBE
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Date:
September 2003, revised May 2005, minor revision February 2006
Contents
Introduction
Problem description
Preliminary results
Special case handling: center or the ellipse
Inside/outside check
Intersection between a line and an ellipse
Iterative method
Initialization
Iterations
Selecting a new point for next iteration
Convergence
Order of the method
Robustness
Approximate formulas
Numerical example
Implementation
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Luc Maisonobe 2006-02-04
