5.6 Tuesday, November 22, 2016

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Top new questions this week: 
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[Create the source image for this cool animated illusion] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131644/create-the-source-image-for-this-cool-animated-illusion

Have a look at this very awesome video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvvcRdwNhGM

You have a vertically discretized image, which is composed of 5 or 6 images, which are shifted by an increment, as ...

- asked by DoHe (22 votes), answered by corey979 (25 votes)

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[Restarting Mathematica automatically] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131573/restarting-mathematica-automatically

I run a large computation in a loop. At each cycle of the loop I produce large arrays that I save on a disk. At each cycle I would like to Quit Mathematica and then restart automatically, loading ...

- asked by Vadim (15 votes), answered by Szabolcs (14 votes)

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[How to handle package dependencies?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131567/how-to-handle-package-dependencies

When an application written in C++ depends on some libraries, the libraries are usually shipped together with the application. Two applications that depend on the same library will not share the same ...

- asked by Szabolcs (11 votes), answered by Kuba (3 votes)

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[How to sample many points below a curve?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131755/how-to-sample-many-points-below-a-curve

I have plotted the curve, and I wanted to take 1000 points in the shaded area uniformly. How can I make it?

Plot[1/ Cos[]^2, {, 0, 2 }, Filling -> Bottom]

- asked by ZHANG Juenjie (10 votes), answered by bbgodfrey (11 votes)

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[how to style multi-value interpolation function plot?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131516/how-to-style-multi-value-interpolation-function-plot

Is there a cleaner way to apply different styles to the different channels of a multi value interpolation function?

here is a 2-output interpolation function:

f = Interpolation[Table[ {x, N@{Sin[x],  ...

- asked by george2079 (10 votes), answered by Michael E2 (7 votes)

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[Backtesting a Probability of Default (PD) model] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131347/backtesting-a-probability-of-default-pd-model

Background

PD models

Financial institutions use Probability of Default (PD) models for various purposes such as client acceptance, provisioning and regulatory capital calculation as required by the ...

- asked by Sjoerd C. de Vries (10 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (14 votes)

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[Display bug in Dataset’s UnitConvert handling] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131332/display-bug-in-datasets-unitconvert-handling

Bug introduced in 11.0.1 (or possibly 11.0.0)

Is this yet another annoying regression in v11 Dataset type handling? The display form seems to be a formatting bug:

The numerator and denominator of ...

- asked by alancalvitti (10 votes), answered by WReach (4 votes)

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[Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

 ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]], r Sin[\[Theta]],  ...

- asked by Matthew Leingang (85 votes), answered by Heike (74 votes)

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[How to create a new "person curve"?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17704/how-to-create-a-new-person-curve

Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collectionź of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica notebook, or person curve into ...

- asked by Simon (61 votes), answered by Vitaliy Kaurov (30 votes)

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[Unix-like reference to parent and root Association?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131337/unix-like-reference-to-parent-and-root-association

Is there a syntax or function to reference parent and root 
when querying nested  Associations similar to Unix' 
".." and "/", eg "cd ../../mydir". ?

Here’s a typical application of the root ...

- asked by alancalvitti (3 votes)

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[Strange behaviour of FullSimplify when checking an equality of SparseArray’s] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131400/strange-behaviour-of-fullsimplify-when-checking-an-equality-of-sparsearrays

I stumbled upon the following strange behaviour. Disclaimer: I present the simplest instance that I could find in which some behaviour occurs that I first noticed in a different, more complicated ...

- asked by Jules Lamers (1 vote)

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[ListPlot PlotRange Ignored with all Missing or empty data] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131321/listplot-plotrange-ignored-with-all-missing-or-empty-data

I have a function that uses ListPlot to draw a custom plot. When a data value is not applicable I pass in Missing to prevent ListPlot and its Prolog option from displaying the point the function will ...

- asked by Edmund (3 votes)