[Proj] Geodesics in terms of elliptic integrals
Charles Karney
charles.karney at sri.com
Tue Oct 16 14:10:31 PDT 2012
GeographicLib now supports the solution of geodesic problems via
elliptic integrals. For details, see
http://geographiclib.sf.net/html/geodesic.html#geodellip
This allows geodesics to be computed on ellipsoids with 0.01 < b/a <
100.
I know this will seen useless to you earthlings; however the work was
done in response to a request from the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory to support measuring distances on the surface of ellipsoidal
molecules with b/a = 3.
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Charles Karney <charles.karney at sri.com>
SRI International, Princeton, NJ 08543-5300
Tel: +1 609 734 2312
Fax: +1 609 734 2662
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