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How to make this beautiful animation
I'd like to expand on Quantum_Oli's answer to give an intuitive explanation for what's happening, because there's a neat geometric interpretation. At one point in the animation it looks like there is ...
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Face Morphing with Mathematica
MMA version: 12.0
I'll use the following images, found on the internet under open licence (if you know how to share the images themselves, please let me know). I originally had chosen two more but ...
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How can I better mimic the graphics at earth.nullschool.net?
I think you might be better off creating Graphics directly instead of using the StreamPlot style options. In this example I use ...
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How to plot a bicycle with square wheels
This question is too interesting to resist, so I'll talk about how to analyze the problem.
Take a look at sketch above. It describes an arbitrary moment during the rolling. From the kinematics view, $...
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Bouncy Bubbles animation
This is my port of the Processing code that you referenced. It doesn't try to optimize, so I didn't try it either, for example I didn't use Nearest to find ...
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Create GIF looping animation
As partly mentioned in this: Add delay to the final frame of a GIF? we can use "AnimationRepetitions" -> ∞ to loop a GIF indefinitely:
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How to make this Möbius Torus animation?
Update: I have managed to fix the distortion of the polygons, so now only the glow is missing
Update 2: I have added a hacky "glow" to the polygons by adding partially transparent polygons ...
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Bouncy Bubbles animation
data generates n balls, here: 10
Note that it might be wise to make the box larger, if ...
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What has changed in Mathematica since version 2 so that Do no longer can be used to make animations?
There was a major overhaul of graphics in 2007 for V6, one aspect of which was that Mathematica switched from displaying graphics as a side-effect, to rendering directly in the notebook.
Since ...
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How to write a drag-n-drop reorderable gui?
Here is a very crude first implementation (code at the bottom):
(note that the updated version is called as `dragDropList[Dynamic@l)
Some notes:
The black box serves both as insertion marker and as ...
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Animate a circle "rolling" along a complicated 3D curve
EDIT
As OP wishes (and as Rahul correctly points out) my original answer puts unit circle in TB plane (my error as labels suggest) and what is desired is TN plane.
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How to add a fading trail effect in Animate?
ColorFunction and Epilog were around in version 7. However, ColorFunction did get an update ...
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Pulsed NMR animation
Here is a simple modification of the original code in the question that seems to do what's desired:
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For a better animation of the solution from NDSolve
To prevent shaking, try to add ImagePadding and for the other issue, you can fix the vertical plot range.
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Dynamic Epicycles
Here is a slight modernization of old code by Stan Wagon for generating epicycles, based on this paper by Frank Farris:
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How to write a drag-n-drop reorderable gui?
I once approached this. I never finished it so let me know if you face any issues:
ResourceFunction["GitHubInstall"]["kubapod", "mgui"]
<< MGUI`
And here ...
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Pulsed NMR animation
Below is an animation that tips a proton precessing in the presence of a static B0 magnetic field from the z direction into the x-y plane with a 90 degree ...
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How can I better mimic the graphics at earth.nullschool.net?
I would like provide an alternative answer using the method of Simon Woods to extract the contour lines. However, in contrast to his approach I prefer to have them as long as possible. This is ...
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Ball Bouncing on Hilly Terrain
There are two problems with the original post, both can be solved by referring to the documentation for handling discontinuity events:
1) As described under Changing State Variables section, the ...
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Animate Koch curve generation and include a transition effect
Isn't the fastest but there is not much to see for higher iterations anyway. Let me know if anything is unclear.
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How to make a Cahn–Hilliard model GIF
I am delighted by this problem mostly because I was not aware of the underlying physical model of phase separation (the Cahn–Hilliard equation)!
Anyway, here is an approximation of a somewhat similar ...
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Animating a Potential Function (eigenfunctions of Laplace's equation)
The fix is to move Animate outside of LocatorPane, but let's go couple of steps further:
I turned Eigenvalues procedure into a ...
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Simplifying code that displays a square rolling inside a circle
EDIT 1. Fixed kernel crashing. The problem was WhenEvent choking, because it was continually checking whether the current pivot (which lies exactly on the bounding ...
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