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[Python-style plots in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84877/python-style-plots-in-mathematica
I love making plots in Mathematica. And i love to spend a lot of time making high-quality plots that maximize readability and aesthetics. For most cases, mathematica can make very beautiful images, ...
- asked by Pablo Galindo Salgado (28 votes), answered by halirutan (29 votes)
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[Numerically solving Helmholtz equation in 3D for arbitrary shapes] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84726/numerically-solving-helmholtz-equation-in-3d-for-arbitrary-shapes
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While studying manifold Learning I got interested in finding the eigenvectors of the Laplacian. (also in connection to this problem of solving the heat equation)
Following this and that ...
- asked by chris (22 votes)
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[Can A Plot Be Overlayed With A Map?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84598/can-a-plot-be-overlayed-with-a-map
Some brief, only slightly important background. I am doing a research project using the data from NASA’s GRACE mission. I wrote a short Perl script to take two data files and find the change in ...
- asked by disc otter (16 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (16 votes)
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[How can we make publication-quality PlotMarkers without version 10?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84857/how-can-we-make-publication-quality-plotmarkers-without-version-10
Suppose that for certain reasons we are not yet using Mathematica version 10, or we have a version with buggy PlotMarkers. It is well known that the default markers are font glyphs, and as a result ...
- asked by Oleksandr R. (15 votes), answered by Oleksandr R. (13 votes)
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[Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on an arbitrary mesh] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84607/eigenfunctions-of-the-laplacian-on-an-arbitrary-mesh
So, I’ve constructed a mesh over which I’d like to find eigenfunctions of Laplace’s equation with a free boundary (a zero Neumann boundary condition along the edge).
Mostly because I figured an ...
- asked by Michael Lee (14 votes), answered by Michael Lee (4 votes)
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[Why is ListPlot so slow here?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84739/why-is-listplot-so-slow-here
While examining How can I monitor the progress of a Plot? I was surprised to discover that in some cases ListPlot in version 10.0 and 10.1 is orders of magnitude slower than it is in version 7. This ...
- asked by Mr.Wizard (13 votes)
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[Is there a way to control which special forms Normal converts?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84783/is-there-a-way-to-control-which-special-forms-normal-converts
Normal documentation reads:
Normal[expr] converts expr to a normal expression, from a variety of special forms.
But is there a way to control which special forms it converts and which it does ...
- asked by Mr.Wizard (11 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (13 votes)
================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================
[Get a "step-by-step" evaluation in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148/get-a-step-by-step-evaluation-in-mathematica
Is it possible in Mathematica to get a step-by-step evaluation of some functions; that’s to say, outputting not only the result but all the stages that have led to it? If so, how does one do it?
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- asked by Skydreamer (70 votes), answered by Guess who it is. (57 votes)
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[Plotting Complex Quantity Functions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3458/plotting-complex-quantity-functions
Trying to plot with complex quantities seems not to work properly in what I want to accomplish. I would like to know if there is a general rule/way of plotting when you have complex counterparts in ...
- asked by night owl (17 votes), answered by Artes (19 votes)
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[Why is setting SynchronousUpdating -> True causes mouse motion to pause/freeze Dynamics?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84826/why-is-setting-synchronousupdating-true-causes-mouse-motion-to-pause-freeze-d
When making a Manipulate, I noticed that setting SynchronousUpdating -> True have a very annoying side effect. By just moving the mouse anywhere on the same cell the Manipulate is running, causes ...
- asked by Nasser (4 votes)
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[Using a Mathematica index as a DiscreteVariable in NDSolve when solving a coupled set of ordinary differential equations] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84471/using-a-mathematica-index-as-a-discretevariable-in-ndsolve-when-solving-a-couple
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Since the explanation below of the problem to be solved is lengthy, let me preamble this by saying that I have code that works to solve the problem, but I don’t know whether (1) it’s ...
- asked by march (6 votes)
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[Why is Transpose Dataset slow in one direction]http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84585/why-is-transpose-dataset-slow-in-one-direction
Transpose is faster when it distributes Keys at the 2nd level of a Dataset than when it factors them out.
ds[len_] := <|"a" -> Range[len], "b" -> (1/Range[len] // N)|> // Dataset
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- asked by alancalvitti (4 votes)