Unanswered Questions
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How to construct a treemap using non-rectangles?
I've written the standard version of a tree map (a graphic that shows nested data) and I'm looking to improve on this layout by switching to different types of polygons or perhaps circles. Can anyone ...
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Mathematica 9 cannot solve this Integral. Mathematica 8 could. Is this a bug?
I was trying to (re)calculate a problem of an older Wolfram blog post (Problem 11457, by M. L. Glasser) with Mathematica 9.0.0.0 (on OS X 10.8.2).
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Is it possible to customize the Suggestions Bar?
I'd like to be able to customize the Suggestions Bar in v9.0 to provide recommendations of my own. Possible example: when doing unit calculations, I'd like it to suggest converting the answer to ...
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What calendar is Mathematica using for dates in the distant past?
It appears that Mathematica treats all dates as proleptic Gregorian dates by default, a hypothesis that can be easily tested by using AbsoluteTime to compute the ...
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How is pattern specificity decided?
Mathematica has a notion of pattern specificity, which is a partial ordering on patterns.
The rules (e.g. DownValues, ...
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Identifying critical points of 2/3D image/cubes
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I am interested in identifying critical points of a 3D field/cubes (maxima, minima, tube-like and wall-like saddle points) and 2D field/image (maxima, minima, saddle points). I.e. the ...
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Changing FrontEnd automatic scrolling in version 8
In Mathematica versions $\le$ 8, the FrontEnd has a very intelligent behavior:
On evaluation, it by default automatically scrolls down the Notebook window to the last printed Output cell but also ...
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Is it safe to launch/close kernels in the middle of a parallel calculation?
It appears that it is possible to launch additional kernels (or close existing ones) during a parallel calculation. The newly launched kernels will be utilized for the rest of the calculation.
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Fast Spherical Harmonics radiative transfer
This is a rather specific question and I apologize for spamming you with some lengthy code. But it could be interesting for some reader and maybe you can help out, so please bear with me.
I am using ...
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How would I improve this Karaoke machine code?
I was looking at a large collection of Import/Export user suggestions the other day and it dawned on me that we finally have MIDI import in Mathematica 9, which is rather interesting since MIDI ...
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Optimization with assumptions
I have the following problem, when I am trying to optimize function with pre-defined assumptions.
I am using Mathematica 8 and I wrote the following simple code
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What technical obstacles prevent all Mathematica code compiling to C
The following represents an attempt at a very simple view of the levels in Mathematica code:
We have had lots of questions about deployment and compiling Mathematica code to C. Some of these for ...
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Simplify matrix algebra
I'm trying to simplify some matrix linear algebra, for example, simplify
$$\big(a1\times(A1\cdot A2)\big)\cdot\Big(a2\times A3\cdot A4+(a3\times A5)\cdot(a4\times A6)\Big)^{T}$$
where lower case ...
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FindFaces: how to improve the results of the face recognition feature
In Mathematica 9, the FindFaces command offers an easy way to detect faces. In some experiments, I've been getting reasonable results, but I'd like to know if there ...
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How to get shadows in Graphics3D?
It was a shock to me when I found that in Graphics3D a surface is always transparent to the light sources:
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