What is the best way to rotate an ellipse in modern programming?

[rohanprabhu]

Some helpful replies: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/94bd1dd23ebe8254

The n00biest programming question ever: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object/msg/3aeae8d49982414d

[taken from: http://thedailywtf.com]

 

[Borek]

man spinthewheel seems the most complete

1992... its about the time I was implementing voxel space in Pascal.

 

[CompuChip]

IIRC spinthewheel() has been superseded by the more general rotate_ellipse(int dimensions, float[] angles(float time))