title: How to loft with ellipses to create a 3d hollow pipe in MATLAB or Python?
body: <p>I have a series of ellipses and know their dimensions and locations of their centers. I would like to plot them and loft through each of them to create a 3d pipe.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a lofting feature in MATLAB or in a 3D library in Python (If so, which library)? In addition, I would like to add these ellipses in real time so staying in MATLAB would be preferable. But, if there is a Python solution, how would I implement it to communicate between the MATLAB and Python file to maintain the real time link.</p>
  
  <p>I would imagine it would look something like this except hollow:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QcATM.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QcATM.png" alt="."></a></p>
  
  <p>It would be great if you could provide a solution for this either in MATLAB or Python.</p>