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### Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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### Generating visually pleasing circle packs

EDIT: (my conclusion and thank you note) I want to thank you all guys for this unexpected intellectual and artistic journey. Hope you had fun and enjoyed it the same as I did. I would like to ...
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### Character edge finding

The following line of code finds the edge of a character: ...
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### Intersecting graphics

Does the Mathematica graphics system have any concept of intersecting graphics? I've not found much in the documents so far. For example, if I want to show the intersection of two shapes: ...
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### Reconstruct text pages cut by shredder

Q1: I have a page of a printed text file, but it was cut by a paper shredder (from top to bottom). You can download all the paper fragments here. Here are some of them. How can I reconstruct it? ...
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### How to partition a disk into individually spaced bricks?

What I want to do is in any way produce a picture that looks like this Given a set of words, how can I partition a disk into bricks for these words, such that it looks good? Here is my sucky ...
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### How to determine the convex hull of some text?

How can I get the co-ordinates of the convex hull of a piece of Text?
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### How to position text labels automatically to not overlap other graphics elements?

I was plotting reciprocal frame projection using Locators for a point to be expressed in terms of both the original basis (also specified with ...
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### Packed Graph or GraphPlot output with non-square layout?

Graph or GraphPlot produce square layouts for disconnected graphs: Graph[Table[i -> Mod[i^3, 100], {i, 1, 100}]] I´d like to get a rectangular layout with ...
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### Computing the bounding boxes for Text objects

Regardless of AspectRatio, the Text boxes overlap. ...
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### Spacing out random walks so they don't overlap

From an external simulation program, I have lots of particle tracks which follow random walks, all of which start at or near the origin $(0,0)$. This means that when I plot the walks in Mathematica, ...
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### How can I simulate a pot lid rotating around an axis that is quickly rotating?

How can I simulate the rotation of a pot lid about an axis that is quickly rotating as in the following image? I'm particular interested in the motion of the red dot. Here is my attempt: ...