With the default option setting Lighting->Automatic, Mathematica uses a simulated lighting model to determine how to color polygons in three-dimensional graphics. Mathematica ...

Implicit Runge–Kutta methods have a number of desirable properties. The Gauss–Legendre methods, for example, are self-adjoint, meaning that they provide the same solution ...

The following techniques are useful for debugging problems with client connections to the license server. MathLM will not start if it cannot find the password file. In that ...

Mathematica includes many controls and structures related to controls as part of its core language. These control objects are supported in a completely seamless way ...

The Mathematica compiler generates a CompiledFunction expression that contains a sequence of simple instructions for evaluating a Mathematica computation. The compiled ...

ExponentialDistribution[\[Lambda]] represents an exponential distribution with scale inversely proportional to parameter \[Lambda].

SphericalPlot3D[r, \[Theta], \[Phi]] generates a 3D plot with a spherical radius r as a function of spherical coordinates \[Theta] and \[Phi].SphericalPlot3D[r, {\[Theta], ...

PolyhedronData[poly, " property"] gives the value of the specified property for the polyhedron named poly.PolyhedronData[poly] gives an image of the polyhedron named ...

ListVectorPlot[array] generates a vector plot from an array of vector field values.ListVectorPlot[{{{x_1, y_1}, {vx_1, vy_1}}, ...}] generates a vector plot from vector field ...

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 ...