X-Nico

unusual facts about ellipse



Circumscribed circle

Steiner point = bc / (b2 − c2) : ca / (c2 − a2) : ab / (a2 − b2) = the nonvertex point of intersection of the circumcircle with the Steiner ellipse.

Federal architecture

The Bald Eagle was a common symbol used in this style, with the ellipse a frequent architectural motif.

LH Aviation LH-10 Ellipse

The Ellipse was thus further developed in collaboration with Thales as a modular platform for civilian and military missions with different equipment systems including day and night vision, rocket launching, and on-board communication systems.

O'Higgins Park

The park contains several structures like the Field of Mars (Campos de Marte) — also known as The Ellipse (La Elipse), for its shape — where every September 19, the military parade takes place.

Region of interest

HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) also has a subset of mechanisms similar to (and intended to be compatible with) DICOM for referencing image-related spatial coordinates as observations; it allows for a circle, ellipse, polyline or point to be defined as integer pixel-relative coordinates referencing an external multi-media image object, which may be of a consumer rather than medical image format (e.g., a GIF, PNG or JPEG).

Tintin videos and DVDs

A limited edition of Ellipse-Nelvana's The Adventures of Tintin TV cartoon series was released as its HMV exclusive in Europe by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Tissot's indicatrix

Tissot’s indicatrix (Tissot indicatrix, Tissot’s ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion) is a mathematical contrivance presented by French mathematician Nicolas Auguste Tissot in 1859 and 1871 in order to characterize distortions due to map projection.

Unduloid

In geometry, an unduloid, or onduloid, is a surface with constant nonzero mean curvature obtained as a surface of revolution of an elliptic catenary: that is, by rolling an ellipse along a fixed line, tracing the focus, and revolving the resulting curve around the line.


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