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28 Mar 2024 21:06:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Least Squares fitting  
From: yesbird
Date: 11 Mar 2023 23:36:35
Message: <dff7ec21-4b6a-a3c5-10db-1da406397849@gmail.com>
On 11/03/2023 23:44, Bald Eagle wrote:
> "yesbird" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion, since the function takes all of the
> randomly generated points and calculates the center point and radius of a single
> best-fitting sphere.   It fits a sphere to the data, not the other way around.
Yes, exactly, but I mean something like this:
https://www2.latech.edu/~jkanno/packing.pdf

Please find fixed Matlab function in attachment.
Btw, there is a free version of ML, which supports original syntax:
https://octave.org
--
YB


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