2.7.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

2.7.2.1 Code that generates a mandala

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=136974

My little brother asked me to print original mandalas for coloring. I would like some idea on how to create them, but without color, so he can color them.

asked by zeros https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26849 73 votes

answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 97 votes

2.7.2.2 How to create word clouds?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2334

Word clouds are rather useless fancy and visually appealing plots, where words are plotted with different sizes according to their frequency in a corpus. Many applications exist out there (Wordle, ...

asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 145 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 119 votes

2.7.2.3 How can I draw the Olympic rings with Mathematica?

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How can I draw the 5 interlocking Olympic rings with Mathematica? (SVG version) Edit

Hard choice, but some pretty cool answers here. I didn’t have 3D answers in mind when I posted the question, but ...

asked by Mike Honeychurch https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77 44 votes

answered by cormullion https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61 23 votes

2.7.2.4 Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta

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I am wondering what is the correct function in Mathematica to plot the true impulse function, better known as the DiracDelta[] function. When using this inside of a ...

asked by night owl https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116 17 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 19 votes

2.7.2.5 How to create effect like Van Gogh’s stroke brush?

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I need to apply Van Gogh’s stroke brush effect to a random image Take the following image as an example:

Thank you so much if you could help!

asked by user10495 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10495 34 votes

answered by Simon Woods https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=862 51 votes

2.7.2.6 Parallel and perpendicular symbol from Mathematica to LaTeX

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=46538

I want to get the following expression from Mathematica to LaTeX:

\[ \begin {bmatrix} E_{\parallel } \\ E_{\perp } \end {bmatrix} \]

I have tried to use inbuilt ’symbol’ character from the special ...

asked by Steve Hatcher https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13314 19 votes answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 27 votes

2.7.2.7 Help find a bright object on Mars!

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=11819

In today’s news, scientists found a bright object on one of Curiosity’s photos (it’s near the bottom of the picture below). It’s a bit tricky to find - I actually spent quite some time staring at the ...

asked by Victor K. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1351 198 votes

answered by Niki Estner https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=242 257 votes