# Make a part of an ellipse as a BSplineCurve?

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 Juerg Baertsch 1 Vote Hello everybodyI didnt find a possibilty to search the forum (where is it?), so I'm sorry, if this isn't a new question.I want to make a part of an ellipse as a BSplineCurve, so that I can use it with Arrow and FilledCurve. In the help of Mathematica, I found an example where they calculate the control-points for BSplineCurve to interpolate some random points: interpolate[pts_] := Module[ {dist, param, deg, knots, m, ctrlpts, i}, dist = Accumulate[ Table[EuclideanDistance[pts[[i]], pts[[i + 1]]], {i, Length[pts] - 1}]]; param = N[Prepend[dist/Last[dist], 0]]; deg = 3; knots = Join[{0, 0, 0}, Range[0, 1, 1/(Length[pts] - deg)], {1, 1, 1}]; m = Table[ BSplineBasis[{deg, knots}, j - 1, param[[i]]], {i, Length[pts]}, {j, Length[pts]}]; ctrlpts = LinearSolve[m, pts]; Return[ctrlpts]; ]; Now I define a parametric function of circle and some points on it, and this works pretty well: (Yellow=ParametricPlot, Blue=BSplineCurve[points], Red=BSplineCurve[interpolate[points]]) a = {1, 0}; b = {0, 1}; el = (Cos[#]*a + Sin[#]*b) &; t1 = \[Pi]/6; t2 = 11 \[Pi]/6; n = 10; pts = Table[el[t], {t, t1, t2, (t2 - t1)/n}]; But if I do the same for an ellipse, it's not good anymore. a = {0.8, 0.1}; b = {0.2, 0.6}; el = (Cos[#]*a + Sin[#]*b) &; t1 = \[Pi]/6; t2 = 11 \[Pi]/6; n = 10; pts = Table[el[t], {t, t1, t2, (t2 - t1)/n}]; Is there a simple way, to make this better? If I make a BSplineCurve without interpolation, but with much more points, it looks ok, but I'm not really happy with this. Then I saw, there is an old Package "Spline" with a possibilty to interpolate. But its marked as an old package and the result could be better.Thx for any help & kind regards. JotaBeta
 Juerg Baertsch 1 Vote I have found a solution for me that works fine. I calculate the point first for a cricle, interpolate them wit the function of the first post, then I transform them to the ellipse and mak the BSplineCurve: ellipse[o_, a_, b_, \[Alpha]1_, \[Alpha]2_, n_] := Module[ {m, o1, a1, b1, pts}, m = TransformationMatrix[ FindGeometricTransform[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}, {0, 1}}, {o, o + a, o + b}][[2]]]; pts = interpolate[ Table[Cos[t]*{1, 0} + Sin[t]*{0, 1}, {t, \[Alpha]1, \[Alpha]2, (\[Alpha]2 - \[Alpha]1)/n}]]; pts = Append[Transpose[pts], Table[1, Length[pts]]]; pts = Transpose[Inverse[m].pts][[All, 1 ;; -2]]; BSplineCurve[pts] ]; The result looks perfect with only few points:But this works only for ellipses. For now I'm happy with this workaround. But If somebody has a solution to convert any parametric functions in Splines, I'm still very interested in this.