Lunchtime Playground: Fun with Mathematica

No advanced topic here, just some simple/silly/useless problems that slip into my mind during lunch break. Free use the contents in any way you like.

Dec 31, 2008

How to grab photos from Flickr

Happy new year 2009! I have a post about make a Flickr image wall with Mathematica First, you need get some basic knowledge about Flickr...

Dec 11, 2008

How to make a Ternary Plot

For the reader who are curious about the post on Ternary Plot The code is very simple, here is the mathematica notebook , and the pdf versio...

Dec 7, 2008

Tip: create 3D Map

Here is a simple explanation on how to create 3D map in the previous post. The key is to use Extrude function (I copied it somewhere): e...

Dec 3, 2008

Mathematica 7: import ESRI Shape file

Finally, ESRI Shape file is supported in Mathematica 7: Import["dir/file.shp"] However, I feel it is necessary to explain it in ...

Nov 24, 2008

Extract font outlines

I find this tip from the talk: Doing Physics with Mathematica 6 by Michael Trott GCText[text_,tsize_]:= ImportString[ExportString[Cell...

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