Installable MathLink Programs (Mathematica Guide)

The Mathematica system provides a convenient way to call functions in external C and other programs. With a .tm template specifying Mathematica functions corresponding to ...

MathLink API (Mathematica Guide)

Extensively used within the Mathematica system itself, MathLink is Mathematica's unique high-level symbolic interface standard for interprogram communication. With convenient ...

Change the Lighting of Plots (Mathematica How To)

You can enhance the appearance of 3D graphics in Mathematica by changing the direction and color of plot lighting. Lighting , an option for Graphics3D and related functions, ...

Do an Integral (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica contains a very powerful system of integration. It can do almost any integral that can be done in terms of standard mathematical functions.

Get Elements of Lists (Mathematica How To)

Lists are very important structures in Mathematica. Lists allow you treat any kind of collection of objects as a single entity. Sometimes you need to pick out or extract ...

Make a Smoother or Rougher Plot (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica gives you the ability to fine-tune the level of detail for your plots. To get a rough sketch of a plot, you can tell Mathematica to plot fewer points. The more ...

CDF (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

MIME types: application/vnd.wolfram.cdf, application/vnd.wolfram.cdf.text Wolfram Computable Document Format (CDF). Used as a deployment format for interactive output to ...

Character8 (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Sequence of 8-bit characters. Raw binary format.

C (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

C programming language. General purpose implementation language for computer systems and applications. Developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1972.

VideoFrames (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Sequence of raster image files. Commonly used as an intermediary format in video production.