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How can this image (optical illusion) be created with Mathematica?
I came across this image the other day:
and liked the sensation of it pulsing. I was wondering if anyone would know how to create something similar with Mathematica (without the Pink Floyd Dark ...
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Op-art Graphic Images
This image comes from Michael Trott's Mathematica Guidebook for Programming. It's just a chapter image though, and he doesn't show the code. I was wondering what would be the best approach to ...
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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 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 create word clouds?
Word clouds are rather useless fancy and visually appealing plots, where words are plotted with different sizes according to their frequency in a corpus. Many applications exist out there (Wordle, ...
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