4
votes
1answer
64 views

How to prevent output truncation when importing large Graphics?

The Evaluation Preferences in Mathematica specify a maximum output size of 1048576 Bytes before truncation occurs. That makes a ...
4
votes
2answers
107 views

How to automate generation of image files?

I need to generate a large number of figures as PNG files, and I'm trying to decide whether Mathematica would be the quickest way to do this. All the figures have the same basic structure, and I'm ...
5
votes
1answer
207 views

How to get full-screen graphics canvas?

Is it possible to create a full-screen graphics without any front end elements like cell brackets and scrollbars? The zero approximation can be ...
4
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0answers
97 views

some Graphics output do not fully render on the screen until an extra click is made into the notebook

Sometimes when using a command such as Grid and looking at the output, some of the actual lines (frame, gridlines) that make up the display will be missing on the ...
7
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1answer
148 views

Changing default ImageSize in the frontend?

I would like graphs to appear somewhat larger in my notebooks (running v8.0.4 on OSX 10.8.2). Naturally I can specify ImageSize in each individual plot, or drag ...
0
votes
3answers
75 views

Timing display of Graphics (Front End timing)

I want to know how much wall-time it takes to display a Graphics For example this one: ...
8
votes
3answers
176 views

Identify which cell uses most memory in front-end

Even though the mathematica front-end is much more robust than it used to be, everyone must have noticed that when a few 3D graphics are involved, the front-end produces very large notebooks which ...
11
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2answers
212 views

can a ColorFunction have side effects?

Can anyone explain this (to me) odd behavior. If I run this code once (fresh kernel) it works as intended. ...
6
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0answers
580 views

Limiting the use of discrete graphics card on Mac

Apple's laptop running Mac OS have a pretty nice feature to make the battery last longer: the dynamically switch between the low-power integrated graphics card and the higher-performance dedicated ...
6
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0answers
118 views

How to create a floating image with no window background [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the most effective way to setup a Notebook with transparent background but solid contents? When MMA 8 starts, a floating image of spikey is shown. As you can see ...
14
votes
3answers
357 views

Memory Leak in Frontend - anyone know a workaround?

When using Rasterize on a Graphics expression composed of many differently coloured Graphics objects memory is allocated in the frontend which is then not released or reused when a similar graphic ...
6
votes
3answers
299 views

How to get rid of Panel margins?

I have a feeling that there is something wrong in general with Mathematica's way of dealing with margins and spaces among/around objects in Graphics, ...
16
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3answers
884 views

Antialiasing in 3D

Is it possible? Is it platform specific? Does it rely on the graphics hardware? Why does the antialiasing slider under Preferences > Appearance > Graphics do nothing? I remember seeing some ...