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    Shortest Distance to Ellipse from Point,

    Hi, once again! i continued working on the subject and i have another, this time mathematical, solution of this problem. what you have to do is express the ellipse in a parametric way. If: x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 = 1, then the parametric form is: x=asinU; y=bcosU ==> dx/dU=acosU...
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    Shortest Distance to Ellipse from Point,

    hi, there! maybe it's late, as someone said before me, but, somebody can find my (possible) solution useful. it's a geometrical one - if you have a point A whose shortest distance from an ellipse you want to find, being inside or outside of the ellipse area, you can draw a circle with the...

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