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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?
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How to make an inkblot?
How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.'s Rorschach demonstration):
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How to build a bvh (a motion capture file format) player in Mathematica?
How to build a bvh player that can be used to visualize human motions in Mathematica? Any
idea or sample code would be appreciated.
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xkcdConvert routines perform slower in Mathematica 9
I am experiencing some rather large performance decreases in Mathematica version 9.0 using the xkcd-styled plotting routines.
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Reproducing the XKCD "Consensus New Year" plot
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Building a Noisy Function
Here's a nice function with a nice plot:
f[t_] := Exp[-Abs[t]] Sin[t];
Plot[f[t], {t, -10, 10}, PlotRange -> All]
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How can one draw a network with nodes and links in a grid shape?
I'd like to be able to use MMa's graphics to make something like this
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How to make figures in a casual, old-fashioned style
I'm writing a math textbook and use Mathematica to make figures. However, like all modern software, Mathematica produces perfectly crisp mathematically accurate figures. Meanwhile, I feel that old-...
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Download xkcd Click and Drag comic
Inspired by the recent question about xkcd styled plots I started looking at xkcd again and I came across a comic titled Click and Drag. And if you do that, you start exploring a larger drawing. A ...
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Get polynomial interpolation formula
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Enlarge the axes text
Plot[Sin[x^2], {x, 0, 3}, AxesLabel -> {"x value", Sin[x^2]}]
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How do I place frame ticks without having corresponding numbers? [duplicate]
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As I am new to writing code for Mathematica, I would really appreciate if someone could provide me the code for the following iteration process.
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$$x_{n+1}=(1-\alpha_n)Sx_n+\...
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