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Obtuse Package

This package contains routines and tools for obtuse angle shadowing networks and distance-based interpolation between scattered, multidimensional points. Four variants of distance-based interpolation can be compared with (coordinate-based) 2D Delaunay interpolation.

If you deal with experimental data in any form, it is a very common case that you can represent the data as a set of numbered scattered points in an abstract point space. You might have a lot of numerical information about the cloud of points, but to be able to gain knowledge, you should look for structures, patterns and relations in this cloud. You should look for outliers, for typical points and point neighborhoods, for shapes like threads, sheets and holes, etc. Suppose, that you have such a set of scattered points in any or an unknown number of dimensions, and that maybe you do not know their coordinates, but you know how to calculate the distance between them. To be able to learn anything about your diffuse cloud of points, it is very useful to have tools to categorize the relations between the points and the shape of the cloud. You can use the distance information to define an obtuse-angle shadowing network connecting nearby points in the set. If you have a function defined on this point set, you might use this network to define a distance-based interpolation function to estimate the function value for a new point of the same kind. Such networks and this kind of interpolation should have applications in various fields, for example image processing and machine learning. The Obtuse package provides Mathematica functions to find and investigate such networks, and to use them for interpolation.

The Obtuse package adds five interpolation methods to the Mathematica Interpolation command:

The other four interpolation methods are distance-based. The distance-based interpolation methods could be applied to a large set of geometries, including multi-dimensional, periodic and regions with cuts, as long as the relevant distance function is specified.


Interpolation in the color space of a picture is possible

Download the Obtuse package file obtuse004.zip and unpack according to the readme file inside.

In Mathematica 8 there is a "compat" warning when the Obtuse package is loaded. This warning can be ignored.

Obtuse003.zip contains minor cosmetic improvements compared to the earlier version obtuse002.zip

In Obtuse004.zip all uses of HierarchicalClustering`DistanceMatrix are replaced by internal package code. In this way the treatment of symbolic variables improves. A bug related to symbolic variables is removed. The interpolation function for the RBF method can be differentiated symbolically.

You might register the package by sending me an email containing the words "REGISTER OBTUSE" and your email address. Feedback and user reports are appreciated.

Even if you do not have Mathematica available, you might check the online documentation, or check the related demonstration Obtuse Angle Shadowing Networks and Distance-Based Interpolation from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Ingolf Dahl



Customizing Manipulate's Autorun

If you are not satisfied with how the Autorun feature of Manipulate runs the controls sequencially, and want to shake all the controls simultaneously, you might appreciate a Mathematica notebook about this. Download CustomizingManipulatesAutorun.nb! You will also learn how to annotate the Autorun feature. And when you have tasted blood, you might want customize the Animate Bookmarks feature too. Download CustomizingManipulatesAnimateBookmarks.nb!

These files were updated up to my current understanding 2010-09-14.


Tetration

Addition, multiplication, exponentiation, ... What comes next? Tetration, or PowerTower in the language of Mathematica. Here is a notebook with the routines for extending the exponent to real positive values: http://www.familydahl.se/mathematica/PowerTower.nb. The current version is created 2006-12-21, with added theory and graphs and changed routines. If you do not have Mathematica available, you might download a notebook reader from http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathreader/ .

More to come...


DivideTriangle

A routine to split a triangle, or a list of triangles, into small triangles with all sides less than d: http://www.familydahl.se/mathematica/DivideTriangle.nb.

Divide Triangles from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Ingolf Dahl

TaggedCells Package (still beta...)

By default Mathematica notebooks are organized linearly, with output cells following corresponding input cells. Sometimes it is useful to have larger freedom in how to write and read. We maybe want to rewrite the same cell several times, for example if we want a status window to monitor an on-going process. Or we might want to write to the same cell from several positions in a notebook. Or we might want to collect the results from a complicated calculation in a nice formatted report. Mathematica provides a mechanism to "tag" cells with names. Or maybe create a game? This package provides routines to utilize this in a convenient way.
Some routines is also provided in this package to enter input to Mathematica programs in some different ways plus a few utilities. The functions in the package have full option and help support.

Some highlights:

Available commands and options: AnimateToClosedGroup, AppendToTaggedCell, DeleteTaggedCell, EvaluateTaggedCell, EvaluateWithTaggedCellButton, ExpressionCell, ExpressionToTaggedCell, FilterOptionList, FormOptionSequence, GraphicBoxDataCell, GraphicsCell, GraphicsCellGroup, InterruptButton, InterruptButtonCell, InterruptWithTaggedCellButton, InvisibleNotebook, NotebookReadTaggedCell, OptionalNotebookOpen, PauseFunction, PrintToTaggedCell, ReadCellInformation, ReadCellInformationTaggedCell, ReadCellSerialNumbers, ReadCellSerialNumberTaggedCell, ReadCursorPosition, ReadMousePad, ReadOptionTaggedCell, ReadViewPoint, RemoveDoublets, ReplaceOptionTaggedCell, SelectTaggedCell, ShowTo3DBoxedCell, ShowToTaggedCell, TaggedCellNotebook, TargetNotebook, TextDataCell, TextDataToTaggedCell

Please help me to test this package, and send feedback to ingolf.dahl@telia.com ! The package is intended for Mathematica 5.1 and 5.2, and has been developed on a Windows XP computer.

(The PrintToTagggedCell notebook, earlier available here, is now made obsolete.)

Download from http://www.familydahl.s/mathematica/TaggedCells0p93.zip and unpack according to the readme file inside.

Version 0.93 (beta) published June 14, 2006.


SetFaceAndFont, version 2.1

A palette to change face and font, but also to convert to input form, to add and remove brackets and parentheses, and to search the Mathematica online help, the Mathematica forums (e.g. MathGroup) and the entire web (possibly also including your own desktop). Comes with help files integrated with the Mathematica help.  The palette is intended for Mathematica 6 and higher, and has been developed on a Windows 7 computer.

Download SetFaceAndFont211.zip and unpack according to the readme file inside.

 

 

 

Version 2.1.1 published September 1, 2010
Some font buttons replaced to reflect the new Help style in Mathematica.
The GC button added for Mathematica code search.
Font size 11 added.
The Search button now searches the whole wolfram.com site.
The source code is now included in the zip file (Jan 11, 2011).

Version 2.0.4 published September 14, 2005, for Mathematica 5.1 and 5.2
Changes from version 2.0.3 to 2.0.4:
1. Peel changed to return executable cell from a SurfaceGraphics cell rendered as a RealTime3D cell. CopyAsInputFormK, "" and StyleRemove buttons corrected in behavior in relation to a SurfaceGraphics cell rendered as a RealTime3D cell. Most users do not use these features. If you are curious about such cells, see http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2001/Apr/msg00346.html.
2. Some entries have been added to Help Master Index and some entries have been changed..
3. The language in the search result pages for Search, MG, Web buttons has been changed to English.


Gallery

     Golden bowl in dynamic 3D (requires Java, 610 kB large file which might take some time to load.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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