How to generate an ellipse using the insertShape Function?
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Does matlab have a preprogramed position generater for an 'ellipse', using insertShape ? Like it does for 'circle', 'rectangle', etc (shown in the image below). I only saw a few shapes listed on the Help Center page and I was wondering if there is more?
I am trying to avoid the brute force of using 'polygon' with points pulled from the analytical function for the ellipse. It would be much more convient and efficient if I could use a preprogrammed position generator for an ellipse, where I enter centroid, major axis, minor axis, etc.
Thanks for the help!

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Aditya Patil
on 14 Jul 2020
This feature is not available as of now. You can create an ellipse by approximating the polygon.
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Birju Patel
on 10 Jul 2025
Support for drawing an ellipsed is available in R2024b: https://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/insertshape.html
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