Symbolic Evaluation (Mathematica Tutorial)

The functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindRoot have the HoldAll attribute and so have special semantics for evaluation of their arguments. First, the variables are ...

SWF (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Registered MIME type: application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe/Macromedia Flash file format. Used for interactive and animated vector graphics, video and sound on the web. SWF is ...

Opacity (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Opacity[a] is a graphics directive which specifies that graphical objects which follow are to be displayed, if possible, with opacity a. Opacity[a, color] uses the specified ...

DateTicksFormat (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DateTicksFormat is an option for DateListPlot which specifies how date tick labels should be formatted.

MouseAnnotation (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MouseAnnotation[] gives any mouse annotation associated with the expression at the current mouse position.

GXL (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

GXL graph data format. Used for the storage and exchange of graphs. GXL is an acronym derived from Graph Exchange Language. XML-based format. Represents typed, attributed, ...

Three-Dimensional Graphics Primitives (Mathematica Tutorial)

One of the most powerful aspects of graphics in Mathematica is the availability of three-dimensional as well as two-dimensional graphics primitives. By combining ...

Min (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Min[x_1, x_2, ...] yields the numerically smallest of the x_i. Min[{x_1, x_2, ...}, {y_1, ...}, ...] yields the smallest element of any of the lists.

Balance Brackets and Braces (Mathematica How To)

All bracketing characters in Mathematica must be balanced. That is, every type of opening bracket must be balanced by a corresponding closing bracket. If there is an ...

GUIKit Example: RealTimePlotting (GUIKit Package Tutorial)

Here is an implementation of the J/Link RealTimePlotting example written with the GUIKit` package.