5.41 Tuesday, March 22, 2016

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[General techniques for creating complex animations] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110190/general-techniques-for-creating-complex-animations

I love good animations of abstract concepts, and when I try to create them myself, I prefer doing so in code to make sure they are exact (and because some things are just way too fiddly to do by ...

- asked by Martin Buttner (23 votes), answered by LLlAMnYP (6 votes)

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[Is there a numerical method/built-in to calculate the boundary of a set of graphs?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110236/is-there-a-numerical-method-built-in-to-calculate-the-boundary-of-a-set-of-graph

Recently, I encounted a geometry problem in my work. For a curve-family that owns the following parametric equation: \[E(t,\theta )= \begin {pmatrix} x_E(t,\theta ) \\ y_E(t,\theta ) \end {pmatrix}\]

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- asked by Shutao TANG (13 votes), answered by RunnyKine (8 votes)

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[Creating 3D dice] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110295/creating-3d-dice

How to create an image of a 3D die from the 2D images?

There is an example in the Documentation Center

I tried

but it doesn’t work.

- asked by vito (13 votes), answered by Martin Buttner (20 votes)

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[Regression /Bug in DelaunayMesh from 10.3.1 to 10.4] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110598/regression-bug-in-delaunaymesh-from-10-3-1-to-10-4

In answering this question, I realized the OP and I were obtaining different results from the alphaShapes2D code. This question was updated with additional point sets, but when I tried to use my ...

- asked by RunnyKine (12 votes)

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[Handling Kernel quit] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110162/handling-kernel-quit

One can use $Epilog to do something when the Kernel is quit or put an end.m file next to the init.m.

For Wolfram System sessions, $Epilog is conventionally defined to read in a file named end.m.

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- asked by Kuba (12 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (7 votes)

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[What is the closest star to Earth other than the sun?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110559/what-is-the-closest-star-to-earth-other-than-the-sun

How to find the Sun’s nearest neighbor star using Mathematica? I tried

but it didn’t work

- asked by vito (10 votes), answered by Zviovich (26 votes)

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[Find the Panda - Dudolf panda puzzle] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110497/find-the-panda-dudolf-panda-puzzle

I recently find this puzzle where you have to find the panda from a group of snowmen. Having a horrible eyesight I have to take help of mathematica to find it.

I start with assumption that all ...

- asked by Sumit (10 votes)

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[How to make use of Associations?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/52393/how-to-make-use-of-associations

I have been curious about it for long. Now that Mathematica 10 arrives, I think it’s time to ask the question: How the new Association data structure would be used to improve Mathematica programming?

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- asked by Yi Wang (105 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (125 votes)

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[Mathematica 10.0.x freezes in Initializing kernels] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/92931/mathematica-10-0-x-freezes-in-initializing-kernels

Bug caused by paclet update and fixed by paclet update.

I updated to Windows 10 and have been running Mathematica fine on it for over a month. For some reason, it has just stopped working. I don’t ...

- asked by mitcheljh (67 votes), answered by ilian (84 votes)

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[SiegelTheta gives misleading message when the dimensions don’t match] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110500/siegeltheta-gives-misleading-message-when-the-dimensions-dont-match

Bug introduced in 6.0 and persisting through 10.4

SiegelTheta is new in 6.0

In order to test the SiegelTheta function, I wanted to evaluate it for \(\mathbf s=\mathbf 0\) when \(\mathbf ...\)

- asked by Semiclassical (3 votes)

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[How do I invert a function with two arguments?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110146/how-do-i-invert-a-function-with-two-arguments

I begin with a function defined by

c[u_, mH_]

I won’t go into details because it comes from countless lines of partial differential equations, boundary conditions and perturbations. But suffice to ...

- asked by Ash Arsenault (2 votes)

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[Cell format for usage statements] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110199/cell-format-for-usage-statements

The myFunc::usage statement is intended to be a simple summary of the symbol and its arguments. However, many users like myself opt out of using Workbench and prefer to maximize use of the Notebook ...

- asked by Robert (2 votes)