PLY (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

3D geometry format. ASCII or binary format. Used for storage and interchange of 3D graphical objects. Known as Stanford Triangle Format. PLY is an acronym derived from ...

Flat (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Flat is an attribute that can be assigned to a symbol f to indicate that all expressions involving nested functions f should be flattened out. This property is accounted for ...

Optional and Default Arguments (Mathematica Tutorial)

Sometimes you may want to set up functions where certain arguments, if omitted, are given "default values". The pattern x_:v stands for an object that can be omitted, and if ...

GeoTIFF (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

GIS extension of the TIFF format. Used for archiving and exchanging aerial photography or terrain data. Binary format. Contains rasters or digital elevation models (DEM). ...

DirectedInfinity (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DirectedInfinity[] represents an infinite numerical quantity whose direction in the complex plane is unknown. DirectedInfinity[z] represents an infinite numerical quantity ...

DiscreteMath`GraphPlot` (Mathematica Compatibility Information)

GraphPlot functionality is now available in the newly added built-in Mathematica kernel functions GraphPlot and LayeredGraphPlot. GraphPlot3D is now available as the newly ...

MDB (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

MIME types: application/mdb, application/msaccess, application/vnd.msaccess MDB database file. Native format of the Microsoft Access database application. Used in conjunction ...

ExportString (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ExportString[expr, " format"] generates a string corresponding to expr exported in the specified format. ExportString[rules, {"format", "Rules"}] gives explicit rules for ...

Basic Internal Architecture (Mathematica Tutorial)

Internal representations used by Mathematica. When you type input into Mathematica, a data structure is created in the memory of your computer to represent the expression you ...

Memory (CUDALink Tutorial)

Both CUDALink and OpenCLLink have a state-of-the-art memory manager that reduces the amount of memory allocation and transfer to the GPU. If used properly, the memory system ...