9.23.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

9.23.2.1 Plotting Complex Quantity Functions
9.23.2.2 Make a scatter plot from two lists
9.23.2.3 How to make an inkblot?
9.23.2.4 Find eigen energies of time-independent Schrödinger equation
9.23.2.5 How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?
9.23.2.6 What does # mean in Mathematica?
9.23.2.7 How to create a new "person curve"?
9.23.2.1 Plotting Complex Quantity Functions

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3458

Trying to plot with complex quantities seems not to work properly in what I want to accomplish. I would like to know if there is a general rule/way of plotting when you have complex counterparts in ... 
[plotting] [complex] [faq]
 
asked by night owl https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116 Score of 42
answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 Score of 29
9.23.2.2 Make a scatter plot from two lists

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I have two lists of values 
 
 xx = {0.1, 0.3, 0.35, 0.57, 0.88, 1.0} 
yy = {1.2, 3.5, 4.5, 7.8, 9.0, 12.2} 
 
 
I want to make a scatter plot (list plot) with xx as x ... 
[plotting]
 
asked by JACKY88 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2403 Score of 28
answered by Eric Thewalt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6313 Score of 42
9.23.2.3 How to make an inkblot?

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How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.'s Rorschach demonstration): 
 
... 
[graphics] [performance-tuning] [image-processing] [generative-art]
 
asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 Score of 90
answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 Score of 54
9.23.2.4 Find eigen energies of time-independent Schrödinger equation

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I'm trying to get the eigenvalues of a one dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation, 
 
$-\frac{h^2}{2m_0}\frac{d^2\psi}{dx^2}+U(x)~\psi=Ei~\psi$ 
 
where U(x) is some potential and Ei is the ... 
[equation-solving] [physics] [parametric-functions]
 
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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 Score of 47
9.23.2.5 How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?

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I'd like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it.  I'm a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I'm hoping that someone can ... 
[plotting] [differential-equations]
 
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answered by Peter Breitfeld https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=307 Score of 30
9.23.2.6 What does # mean in Mathematica?

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I asked Mathematica to compute the following 
 
 Solve[c (1-x)^2-x^(1/4) == 0, x] 
 
 
and it returned this: 
x = Root[#1^8 c^4 - 8 #1^7 c^4 + 28 #1^6 c^4 - 56 #1^5 c^4 ... 
[syntax] [core-language]
 
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answered by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 Score of 77
9.23.2.7 How to create a new "person curve"?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=17704

Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collectionź of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter  WolframAlpha["person curve"]  into a Mathematica ... 
[graphics] [image-processing] [algorithm] [wolfram-alpha-queries] [generative-art]
 
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answered by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 Score of 48