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From: Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems with ellipse object
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:02:40 +0200
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Am 18.04.2017 um 13:12 schrieb Karl Ratzsch:
> Well, you just can give a bogus positive z coordinate :
> 
>   set view map
>   set log z
>   set object 1 ellipse at 0.0,0.0,1 size 0.5,0.5,1 angle 0 front
>   splot [-2:2][-2:2] x**2+y**2 notitle with lines

This is of course not intended to work, really, and the trick falls
to the side with latest cvs of both the stable and development tree,
most likely due to the latest changes (2017-04-10) in src/graphics.c.