[GRASS-user] Minimum fitting ellipse with attributes

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:59 PM, John Wall <jwall at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Markus,
> Is this some of the code you are talking about:
> http://nicky.vanforeest.com/misc/fitEllipse/fitEllipse.html

Yes.

> I do not see any other code than this when I search for it on Google.

I just searched briefly during travelling.
Here was a reference but it is referred to the same code:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13635528/fit-a-ellipse-in-python-given-a-set-of-points-xi-xi-yi

Maybe books about computational geometry could be useful, too.

Markus