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Questions about algorithms used or which might be used to implement a procedure known by name or loosely but not in detail. The subject of the question may be a procedure mentioned in the literature or a Mathematica built-in function

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Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection¹ of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica ...
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Suppose we have a sorted list of values. Let's use list = Sort@RandomReal[1, 1000000]; for this example. I need a fast function ...
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I am looking into splitting words into a succession of chemical elements symbols, where possible. For example: Titanic = Ti Ta Ni C (titanium, tantalum, nickel, carbon) A word may or may not be ...
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EDIT: Although I have posted an answer based on my current progress, this in incomplete. Please see the "open issues" section in the answer. Most plotting functions in Mathematica adjust the sampling ...
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I'm trying to implement a Brillouin Zone algorithm within Mathematica, including the generation of Brillouin zones of higher order in 2D and 3D. There is a nice implementation of generating these ...
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Description: Rencently, I have finished my course Numerical Analysis, so I'd like to implement many algorithm that I have learned from that course.By this practice, I hope that I can improve my ...
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Bresenham's line algorithm is producing discretized line for given two points for purpose of plotting for example. Like that: I have to stress that I'm interested in positions, not a plot. Wikipedia ...
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Consider a set of trajectories in 3D space, that possibly converge. By visualizing trajectories as arrows the result will look crowded as each arrowhead will be placed where the attractor is. In 2D, ...
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In engineering problems, I am always seeing many recursion formula. For instance, In the book "The NURBS book", I discovered many recursion formula Fibonacci $$f(n+...
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I would like to examine percolation on a random lattice. To be exact, I wish to find the minimum length of a 'bond' needed such that the leftmost site can be connected to the rightmost site. Here is ...
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Consider this: pts = {{0, 0}, {1, 1}, {2, -1}, {3, 0}, {4, -2}, {5, 1}}; f = BSplineFunction[pts] I can use ParametricPlot to ...
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MATLAB offers a function polyeig for computing polynomial eigenvalues, which appear, for instance, in quadratic eigenvalue problems (see here for some applications) ...
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Consider the case where I have two $k$-chromatic graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, i.e. two graphs where individual vertices can be colored with one of a set of $k$ total colors, and I would like to determine ...
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I have been trying to simulate the process of the theatre puzzle from the Joy of X (Strogatz). The puzzle, and some relevant material are here. My simplistic coding for this process follows: ...
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I need a faster implementation of FractionOfYear and FractionOfMonth, which do the following: Input: A time/date specified by <...
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