# All Questions

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### How to draw a great circle on a sphere?

I apologize for the text description, but new users are not allowed to post images. I want to draw a circle that cuts through the center of a sphere and has an inclination of 15 degrees with the ...
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### Dealing with large files

I have a *.dat file in which the contents are basically one giant list: {1,2,3,4} {5,6,7,8} {9,10,11,12} and so on. I'd like to read in the first 500 members { ...
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### Programmatically combine 2D contour plots with 1D projections

I regularly need to plot 2D and 1D data together. I want to be able to show a 2D contour plot with the projections along each of the axes. As it is now, I create the three plots separately and use ...
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### How to set focus of a dialog window?

I have a dialog, which, when pops up, requests input from the user. How can I set the window up that the focus is on the InputField of the new window (i.e. the ...
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### Encrypt the password used for SendMail

I want Mathematica to send me an email when the computation is finished. To that end, I have a cell with SendMail[...] which I place behind my computation in the evaluation queue. The problem I have ...
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### Reading from STDIN, or: how to pipe data into Mathematica

Today I tried using Mathematica's plotting capabilities to display the output of a C++ program. This made me wonder whether it is possible to somehow tell a Mathematica script to read from STDIN and ...
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### Background image in a polygon / CountryData

Is it possible to use a background image in a polygon without rasterizing the polygon? I tried with textures, but they seem to be viable only for simple polygons. I want to put a flag as the ...
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### What is the complete list of valid FrontEnd Packet types?

In response to my question How can I get the unchanged Box form of an arbitrary expression? John Fultz answered with a method using the hilariously named ...
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### Splitting up delimited data in lists

One task that I frequently find myself doing in Mathematica is splitting lists into lists of sublists, using specific elements to define the break-points. This is particularly useful with imported ...
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### Ellipse counting from image

I have hundreds of images similar to this image: I'm looking to count the number of ellipses as well as their major and minor diameters. The ellipses are touching, hence, ...
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### Grid layout problems: different sizes when rendering on Mac and Windows

From the documentation for ItemSize: {w,h} make all items the specified width and height and In Grid, w is measured in ems, and h in line heights. This ...
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### How to express ticks in scientific form? [duplicate]

I want to express the ticks in scientific form. I tried two ways as following ...
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### Plotting ErrorBars with a different style

I would like to plot the error bars of ErrorListPlot with a different style than the points. I know of ErrorBarFunction, but ...
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### Composing an image with a plot

I'm trying to illustrate the solutions to a textbook problem dealing with quadratic functions. This will involve plotting a quadratic and overlaying the plot and the image. Here is the textbook ...
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### How to approximate a given WAV file with trigonometric series?

I'd like (together with a few people) to prepare a presentation about Fourier series for middle/high school students. I thought it might be quite cool to play a violin sound from, say, a WAV file, ...
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### user defined functions, how to save them for future use?

I need certain user defined functions over and over. I was wondering how can I define and where and how to save them such that each time I start a notebook, these functions are available and need not ...
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### Fast Simulations with Compile

this post relates to another post that I didn't follow up propely. If I wanted to simulate a system of stochastic proesses like the following, and loop over this run many many times would writing the ...
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### How can I prevent ColorFunction from disabling antialiasing in graphics?

When I use ColorFunction, the appearance of my plots is ruined, changing from this which has the normal smooth lines and antialiased fonts, to this in which ...
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### Exporting notebook to HTML, using conversion rules

The idea is to export the whole notebook to HTML with all the math equations in latex form. In this way we can add the mathjax script and it will take care of the math. Suppose we have the following ...
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### Finding “Maxima” and “Minima” on a B-Spline

I need to find the "Maxima" and "Minima" on a B-Spline or more correct the points where the 2nd components of the derivate equal zero. For example: ...
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### Is there a way to interactively read a point from a Graphics3D?

Suppose I have a tesselation, e.g. the Stanford bunny: bunny = Import["http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/Data/Meshes/bunny.obj", "OBJ"] I'd like to be ...
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### Quickly selecting for points in a set that are within a critical distance of points in another set

Imagine two lists of two-dimensional coordinates: listA = RandomReal[{0,100},{202,2}]; listB = RandomReal[{0,100},{97,2}]; I'm attempting to quickly generate a ...
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### Turn expression into function

I'm new to Mathematica and I spent the last hour trying to make the expression ...
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### Quick Hessian matrix and gradient calculation?

I am absolutely new to Mathematica and I actually want to try implementing a little optimization method . Long story short assuming I have a predefined two-variable function f(x,y) I want to ...
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### Continuous wavelet transform with complex Morlet function

The complex Morlet function is defined as: $$Ψ(t,f_c,f_b)= \frac{1}{\sqrt[]{ \pi f_{b} } }\exp(-t^2/f_b)\exp(\jmath 2πf_ct)$$ where $f_b$ and $f_c$ are two important parameters in modifying the ...
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### How can I use the Klingon alphabet symbols?

Note: This functionality is presently missing. See: How to add named characters to Mathematica 10? Mathematica apparently supports the Klingon alphabet: ...
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### Why is Query so much slower than Part?

Time for another of these(1),(2) as yet another new-in-10 function appears to have poor performance compared to older alternatives. This time: Query appears to be ...
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### How to find pieces of code responsible for syntax errors?

Especially: How to find the piece of code responsible for a missing parenthesis problem caused by a misplaced SuperScriptBox For last 30 minutes (and I was lucky ...
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### Finding the area, algebraic curve and jaggedness of an arbitrary shape

I start with a photograph of a shape (physically made by the flow of a liquid into another), of which I can extract the border, manually or using Mathematica's feature detect feature : Using the ...
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### Mathematica: finding min/max in list

I have a list of coordinates like this one: {{x1,y1},{x2,y2},{x3,y3},...,{xn,yn}} I need to get the minimum and the maximum of all x-values and the minimum and ...
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### Difference between Fitting Algorithms

I am new to Mathematica, and I don´t quite understand, what the difference between the fitting algorithms Fit, FindFit, ...
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### Printing exported PDF graphics fails (version 8)

When I export even simple graphics, say, a DateListPlot to PDF under Windows, it refuses to print on any of the printers at work. Acrobat (Reader X) throws three ...
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### Error checking and trapping techniques with Throw and Catch

Mathematica provides several mechanisms for checking arguments and trapping errors in a function definition. Typical methods are : Definitions with argument patterns, definitions with ...
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### Shuffle product of two lists

I want to do the following: I have two lists {a_1,...a_n}, {b_1,...,b_n} and I would like to build now all shuffles out of this. This means all unions of these ...
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### Creating a cross referencing shortcut

I believe I have gather all the pieces of information I need to create what I want but yet I cannot make the connection. Let me start with the goal. Simple Cross referencing Let us start by creating ...
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### Can Wolfram's Player Pro use proprietary packages?

A few entwined/related questions: Can Wolfram's Player Pro use proprietary packages? I have searched Wolfram's site pages on Player Pro and don't see anything that provides a clear answer to this ...
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### Pass Options to Export[]

I'm working with Options to change the look and feel of some generated Graphics by passing Options to several functions, one of them being Export[]. For example: ...
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### Manipulating the axis on a ListLinePlot

I am trying to create a plot using ListLinePlot in which the x-axis is represented in a logarithmic scale, and is reversed (so larger values are on the right side). ...
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### Finding a Specific Line in a Package

In a package I am developing, I accidentally left this line Protect[ uncompleted prior to running the package. Mathematica produced this error message ...
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### Derivative of real functions including Re and Im

When deriving functions using Re, Im or Arg (and probably some other functions as well), ...
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### Internal “Periodical” functions in version 7

In version 7 there exist these Internal context functions: ?Internal*Periodical* ...
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### How do I create a triangulated surface from points?

I have a set of points in a nx3 matrix and I would like to convert them into a surface, so that I may calculate its surface area. The function ListSurfacePlot3D creates the surface how I want it. ...
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### Tokenize Mathematica input in a simple way

Background Usually, I give detailed descriptions when I have a question which sometimes lead to that users don't write their answers because they maybe think their answer is too simple. Therefore, I ...
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### Is it possible to use the LevenbergMarquardt algorithm for fitting a black-box residual function?

I have a black-box multiargument multiparametric function of the type SRD[dataPoint_List,params_List] which accepts experimental data along with the parameters of ...
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### Image levels: how to alter 'exposure' of dark and light areas?

I was working with some less than ideal photographs, and wanted to adjust them before continuing. I wanted to raise the levels of the very dark areas and lower the levels of the very light areas. I ...
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### Monitoring progress of long calculations

I've came upon a few methods of how to display "processing" information while Mathematica is running. But, from what I've understood, this only works in between lines of codes. Is it possible to ...
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### How to add lists with unequal length?

Given lists of unequal lengths, I want to add them together element-wise, treating missing elements as zero. For example, {1, 2, 3} + {a, b} + {x} should give ...
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### Using Apply inside Compile

In this great answer a compiled version of the Nelder-Mead algorithm is presented. Since it works on arbitrary dimensions (i.e. arbitrary number of arguments), it has to use apply on the objective ...