Re: [R] rgl: draw multiple ellipsoids

2011-02-03 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Thank you for the pointer; I'd overlooked that demo which contains an alternative way of generating ellipsoids. It is slightly annoying that ellipsoid3d is not defined in the main package but in the demo; I'll have to duplicate the code. Playing with this idea, I realised the bottleneck of my

Re: [R] rgl: draw multiple ellipsoids

2011-01-31 Thread Ben Bolker
baptiste auguie googlemail.com> writes: > > Dear list, > > I'm trying to visualise some ellipsoidal shapes in 3D. Their position, > axes, and angular orientation can be arbitrary. I saw an ellipse3d > function in rgl; however it is heavily oriented towards the > statistical concept of ellipse o

[R] rgl: draw multiple ellipsoids

2011-01-31 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear list, I'm trying to visualise some ellipsoidal shapes in 3D. Their position, axes, and angular orientation can be arbitrary. I saw an ellipse3d function in rgl; however it is heavily oriented towards the statistical concept of ellipse of confidence, whilst I am just concerned with the geometr