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[How to make this beautiful animation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112700/how-to-make-this-beautiful-animation
How to make an animation of following gif in Mathematica?
Edit: The animation shown above was created by Charlie Deck in processing.
And how to make 3D analog?
I tried first few steps
line = ...
- asked by vito (36 votes), answered by C. E. (38 votes)
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[Can you plot pure function without specifying variable?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112478/can-you-plot-pure-function-without-specifying-variable
Given a pure function, e.g. f=Sin[#]& it is possible to plot it with introducing an arbitrary
local variable, e.g.,
Plot[f[x],x,0,1]
However, the introduction of a variable x seems ...
- asked by JeffDror (15 votes), answered by Jens (12 votes)
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[Vizualization of percolation paths] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112878/vizualization-of-percolation-paths
I did a simple demonstration to illustrate the percolation theory for my students. The content is a conductive square network possessing electrodes at its top and bottom edges. Some randomly chosen ...
- asked by Alexei Boulbitch (13 votes), answered by Kuba (8 votes)
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[How to access FEM shape functions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112907/how-to-access-fem-shape-functions
A couple of days ago I asked here about surface meshes and plotting on surfaces.
Now I have another question: How can I access the surface or boundary element shape functions?
I would like to ...
- asked by AxelF (9 votes), answered by user21 (7 votes)
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[Finding peaks of curve with small values] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112993/finding-peaks-of-curve-with-small-values
I have 2d data of which I want to find the peaks.
data << "http://pastebin.com/raw/EQFz1KFn"; peaks = FindPeaks[data[[All, 2]], 0, 0, -Infinity] // N
The magnitudes of the found peaks are ...
- asked by mrz (8 votes), answered by JasonB (11 votes)
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[Is there research about the Mathematica programming paradigm?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112920/is-there-research-about-the-mathematica-programming-paradigm
There seem to be lots of papers discussing the functional programming paradigm terminology for Haskell, such as monad, category theory, lambda calculus, *morphism, etc. People study concepts and ...
- asked by Eric (8 votes)
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[Constructing a graph from a distance matrix] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112745/constructing-a-graph-from-a-distance-matrix
I have a set \(S\) of \(n\) 2-dimensional points. We can compute a distance matrix (Euclidean distance) for \(S\) using say this answer. I wish to form an \(n\)-vertex graph having the points \(S\) as vertices, ...
- asked by Juho (8 votes), answered by Martin Buttner (9 votes)
================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================
[Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica
I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad.
Is ...
- asked by Tianxiang Xiong (42 votes), answered by Artes (36 votes)
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[What is the best Mathematica tutorial for young people?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/733/what-is-the-best-mathematica-tutorial-for-young-people
As Conrad Wolfram said at the TED conference, in the future kids should focus more on new technology. Computers compute better than humans, so we should focus more on thinking and getting the ...
- asked by noisy (43 votes), answered by Vitaliy Kaurov (23 votes)
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[Possible reduced GUI performance in 10.4] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112526/possible-reduced-gui-performance-in-10-4
I have observed significantly reduced performance in GUI in Mathematica v10.4. This is especially visible in autocomplete feature delays. This is very evident when I turn some power saving features ...
- asked by leosenko (3 votes)
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[Why does Eigenvalues work for a matrix \(\{M\}\) but not \(\{\{M\}\}\)?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112619/why-does-eigenvalues-work-for-a-matrix-m-but-not-m
Suppose I have a matrix {{1, 2}, {3, 4}}
which I’ll call mat. In a blur of human error, I computed the eigenvalues of mat with an extra set of curly braces surrounding it. To my surprise, this ...
- asked by user170231 (3 votes)
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[Calculate the ESP Grid based on Density Grid] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112872/calculate-the-esp-grid-based-on-density-grid
I want to build a fast way to convert a density grid file into a grid file of the respective electrostatic potential (ESP; also known as MEP, the molecular electrostatic potential).
This ...
- asked by pH13 - Yet another Philipp (3 votes)