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How can we make publication-quality PlotMarkers without version 10?
Based on Oleksandr's excellent design idea here is my re-implementation of his package which offers a much richer set of shapes.
UPDATE from July 2022
A minor update: now the form ...
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Trying to visualize the Collatz conjecture
If you want to make several sequences of the Collatz function for turning it into a graph, you probably want to memorize, which parts you already calculated. What we try to do is to create a graph ...
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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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How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
Scientific progress! In v10.3 with all the goodies in AnatomyData we can now use the simple code:
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Python-style plots in Mathematica
In this answer, I will concentrate on the colors only to create something like this
Copying the colors from python is a very fast way to get similar results. Nevertheless, the best way to understand ...
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Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?
Illuminated by @Mr.Wizard's answer, here I provide a complete example of a self-made plot theme, called "Academic". It can be used as a base theme.
The axes ...
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Hightlight all the self-intersections of a Lissajous figure
I will start with the most general Lissajous figure, which has a parametric equation as follows:
$$
x(t) = f_a(at+\phi_a) \\
y(t) = f_b(bt+\phi_b) \\
t \in [0,2\pi)
$$
Where:
$$
f_a, f_b \in \{\sin, \...
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How can we make publication-quality PlotMarkers without version 10?
Fortunately, Wikipedia has the answer, as long as we are content to restrict ourselves to non-intersecting closed polygons. This will probably be an acceptable limitation, given that excessively ...
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Drawing Clifford Attractors in Mathematica
Parameters:
a = -1.24458; b = -1.25191; c = -1.815908; d = -1.90866;
Compiled function used for iteration:
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Python-style plots in Mathematica
Using color functions efficiently in data visualizations is more of an art than a recipe, so don't worry if you're not "good" at it yet. It's only a matter of time :)
Copying the color schemes from ...
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How to implement the sample-point process like the built-ins of Mathematica?
Plot uses two different algorithms depending on whether PerformanceGoal is set to Quality or ...
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Make a beautiful Moiré effect
I feel that once you start with Moire patterns, there's no ending. The way I would replicate these is by making a grid into a function (like @JasonB) but also parametrise the angle of rotation into it:...
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How can I reproduce this mandala with Mathematica?
Update: We can get a shape similar (except for colors) to the one in OP using ScalingTransform as follows:
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How to draw an interactive, mouse clickable, 3D Bloch sphere?
Here is an attempt to draw a 3D Bloch sphere, on which we can select a point simply clicking on it with the mouse and obtain the corresponding qubit representation.
In the code I made use of Szabolcs' ...
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Plot 3D model of DNA in Mathematica
The easiest way to do this is if you have a PDB file, then it's as easy as using Import. Here are a few examples from the RCSB's Protein Data Bank. To get the URLs,...
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How to implement the sample-point process like the built-ins of Mathematica?
Wanna listen to a story? :)
It was around 2002 when I finally became fed up with ParametricPlot3D[] and its inability to adaptively plot space curves. Recall that ...
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Placing a ContourPlot under a Plot3D
Here's one using SliceContourPlot3D (introduced in 10.2) and Vitaliy's stylings.
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Place a small gap between axes and plot?
This can be done more-or-less easily with a combination of options for AxesOrigin, PlotRange, and ...
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How to generate image like QR code with Mathematica
This version of generation code is originally posted at wolfram community.
I guess a story-telling type post would attract more upvotes and probably give some insight about how to 'solve problems' ...
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Import and Plot Git Commit History
This package provides couple of functions for plotting commits data from GiHub:
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How to plot data by counties?
Updated text
I made a tutorial out of this answer and posted it on Wolfram Community. It's slightly different, and may be worth to check out.
Data from Wolfram Knowledgebase
The most ...
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Zoom in on a 2D graph
This is a prototype, it can not handle Text Inset and some more complicated directives efficiently but I don't have time / ...
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Zoom in on a 2D graph
You can do this using Show and PlotRange which can be used in combination with graphs. To determine the full ...
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Plot 3D model of DNA in Mathematica
This was supposed to be a comment to Jason's answer, but it got a bit long.
But wouldn't it be cool if you could just input a DNA sequence and have a plot? ... take that little snippet and paste it ...
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