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May
17
revised How to Clear variables with apostrophe?
added 97 characters in body
May
17
revised 3rd derivative keyboard shortcut
Removed unneeded alias
May
17
answered 3rd derivative keyboard shortcut
May
17
reviewed Close Generate a list without braces?
May
17
reviewed Leave Open Evaluating the different calculations
May
17
revised Visualizing vector spherical harmonics
Typos corrected, added link for ellipse arcs
May
16
awarded  Enlightened
May
16
awarded  Nice Answer
May
16
revised Visualizing vector spherical harmonics
Added movie to explain the meaning of colors and visualize mathematical details added at the end.
May
16
awarded  Necromancer
May
14
comment Integrate of Heaviside Function returns an error answer
In version 8, both methods work even if I leave out the Assumptions.
May
13
comment Visualizing vector spherical harmonics
@J.M. Thanks for the link. But I'm sad to say that my institution doesn't have access to that journal. Anyway, the math behind this is not too hard - I could add it tomorrow. My favorite reference for this would be Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light: Caustics and Wave Dislocations. I haven't been able to find a reference where these ellipses were used for visualization in 3D space, the way I do here.
May
12
revised Visualizing vector spherical harmonics
Added explanations, removed unnecessary test line from code
May
12
answered Visualizing vector spherical harmonics
May
12
comment Why ImportString[ExportString[, “PDF”], “PDF”] sometimes gives an extra point
Not sure why Times looks different on Mac, but you could work around it by replacing Times with TimesNewRoman.
May
11
comment rotating 3d text
My education is lacking, I see. By the way, TextMode -> "Outlines" can be omitted...
May
11
comment rotating 3d text
@SimonWoods It stopped being fun when I encountered a new bug just now. It reproducibly crashes with front and back textures when one of them is transparent and the other isn't (it seems). Simplest example: edit my code to Texture[ImageData/@{text,r}] (save session first). I don't think I want to mess with that right now...
May
11
revised rotating 3d text
Pane added
May
11
comment rotating 3d text
@SimonWoods Ah yes, I didn't think of the blur effect. I'll try it.
May
11
comment rotating 3d text
(+1), although I think thou hast misquoted Shakespeare.