Different measures of distance or similarity are convenient for different types of analysis. Mathematica provides built-in functions for many standard distance measures, as ...

Combining methods from set theory, topology, and discrete mathematics, mathematical morphology provides a powerful approach to processing images and other discrete data. ...

Mathematica 7 delivers the latest fruits of Wolfram Research's major long-term Computable Data Initiative, providing immediate access to curated static and dynamic data in ...

Mathematica 7 extends its general treatment of lists and matrices by adding a variety of convenient functions, including support for common convolution and structure matrices.

ImageCapture[] opens a graphical user interface for capturing images from connected cameras.

ImageSizeAction is an option for Pane and related constructs that specifies what to do if the specified ImageSize setting does not match the size of the contents.

ImportString["data", " format"] imports data in the specified format from a string. ImportString["data", elements] imports the specified elements.ImportString["data"] ...

Latitude[pos] gives the latitude in degrees of a geographic position specified by pos.Latitude[pos, datum] gives the latitude referring to the specified geodetic datum.

SetAlphaChannel[image] adds a fully opaque alpha channel to image.SetAlphaChannel[image, a] sets the opacity of all pixels to a.SetAlphaChannel[image, aimage] sets the alpha ...

SplineDegree is an option for spline functions and graphics primitives that specifies the degree of polynomial basis to use.