Fit an Ellipse

Given a set of x/y positions, this function attempts to find the best fitting ellipse that goes through these points.

Usage

optim_ellipse(x, y)

Arguments

x, y

Vectors of x and x positions.

Value

A vector with 5 elements: the x and y coordinated of the center of the ellipse, the width and height of the ellipse, and the angle of the ellipse relative to the y axis in degrees.

Author

Simon Garnier, garnier@njit.edu

Examples

optim_ellipse(rnorm(5), rnorm(5))
#> [1]  -1.403510  -1.821818   3.278230   6.226140 -15.756644