- An
ellipsoid is a
surface that can be
obtained from a
sphere by
deforming it by
means of
directional scalings, or more generally, of an
affine transformation...
- the
angle formed between the
vector perpendicular (or normal) to the
ellipsoidal surface from the point, and the
plane of the equator. Two
levels of abstraction...
- An
Earth ellipsoid or
Earth spheroid is a
mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a
reference frame for com****tions in geodesy, astronomy...
- A
Jacobi ellipsoid is a
triaxial (i.e. scalene)
ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating,
fluid body of
uniform density...
- The
study of
geodesics on an
ellipsoid arose in
connection with
geodesy specifically with the
solution of
triangulation networks. The
figure of the Earth...
- In geodesy, the
Hayford ellipsoid is a
reference ellipsoid named after the
American geodesist John
Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925),
which was
introduced in...
- the
ellipsoid method is an
iterative method for
minimizing convex functions over
convex sets. The
ellipsoid method generates a
sequence of
ellipsoids whose...
- A spheroid, also
known as an
ellipsoid of
revolution or
rotational ellipsoid, is a
quadric surface obtained by
rotating an
ellipse about one of its prin****l...
- In
robot kinematics, the mani****bility
ellipsoid represents the mani****bility of a
robotic system in a
graphical form. Here, the mani****bility of a...
- In mathematics, the John
ellipsoid or Löwner–John
ellipsoid E(K) ****ociated to a
convex body K in n-dimensional
Euclidean space R n {\displaystyle \mathbb...
