Plotting A 3D Ellipse

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bedhouin

I'm trying to plot an ellipse depicted in three dimensional space. B3D doesn't seem to be able to do this natively (that I can see).

So far what I've theorised is that in order to plot it manually I would have to recursively calculate points on the circumference of the the ellipse and join them together with lines or cylinders. The more iterations I perform the smoother the ellipse should look.

Is there a better solution?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.