Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipsoids
2008/Oct/12 23:11:56
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
, Xiaoyu Zheng
, Wilder Iglesias
Additional detailed information, including source codes, corrected typos and an algorithm for finding the contact point is available via the references on the wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_of_closest_approach_of_ellipses_and_ellipsoids
A corrected version (fixing a bug) of the C-code is now available on the wiki site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_of_closest_approach_of_ellipses_and_ellipsoids