Concurrency: Managing Parallel Processes (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...

Financial Visualization (Mathematica Guide)

Financial visualization is used to understand how the price of stocks, commodities, currencies, etc. changes over time. Candlesticks and related charts use stylized glyphs to ...

BoxRatios (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BoxRatios is an option for Graphics3D that gives the ratios of side lengths for the bounding box of the three-dimensional picture.

ColorRules (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ColorRules is an option for ArrayPlot which specifies how colors of cells should be determined from values.

FontFamily (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FontFamily is an option for Style and Cell that specifies the font family in which text should be rendered.

Input (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Input[] interactively reads in one Mathematica expression. Input[prompt] requests input, displaying prompt as a "prompt".Input[prompt, init] in a notebook front end uses init ...

InputString (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

InputString[] interactively reads in a character string. InputString[prompt] requests input, displaying prompt as a "prompt". InputString[prompt, init] in a notebook front ...

MeanShiftFilter (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MeanShiftFilter[image, r, d] replaces each pixel with the mean of the pixels in a range-r neighborhood and whose value is within a distance d.MeanShiftFilter[array, r, d] ...

SetOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetOptions[s, name_1 -> value_1, name_2 -> value_2, ...] sets the specified default options for a symbol s. SetOptions[stream, ...] or SetOptions["name", ...] sets options ...

SubsuperscriptBox (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

x_y^z is the low-level box representation for x_y^z in notebook expressions.