Wolfram Mathematica

9:26 AM

I asked a WolframAlpha related question on Math.SE.

In a comment I was advised to ask at Mathematica.SE:

Even if it is on-topic, I guess that you will get better help on the Mathematica SE site for this kind of question. — mickep 9 mins ago

Do I remember correctly that such questions are off-topic on this site?

@mickep From what I read here and here it seems that questions like this would be closed as off-topic on that site. — Martin Sleziak 2 mins ago

9:38 AM

I see it is also mentioned in the help-center: "Some kinds of questions are considered off-topic: Questions on Wolfram Alpha (but questions on using Wolfram Alpha within Mathematica are okay)."

10:36 AM

BTW if they're not on-topic on the main site, would it be o.k. to ask them in this chatroom?

For example like this: Can somebody help me with this question: How to create animated plot of curve depending on parameter in WolframAlpha?

10:58 AM

Hello Martin, you are right that mathematica.SE considers pure Alpha questions off-topic. So, no reason not to ask on math.SE. :)

Unfortunately, unless things have greatly changed, Alpha is not able to produce animations; you need an actual copy of Mathematica for that.

11:10 AM

Thanks for the reply @J.M. :-)

No problem. :)

If we can find some kind of official source then this could be an answer to my question.

Although I would expect at least Pro version to be able to make some kind of animations if they want 5 USD/month for it. (Not that I am planing to purchase it.)

I doubt that they would easily make animation capabilities available for a mere five dollars, tho. :(

BTW it seems that several people noticed your return to MSE; see this also the replies on the next day.

Wolfram claims that Pro can produce a CDF that animates, but I don't know how true is that, and I'm betting it can't produce GIFs from an animation.

Apparently so, but as I am stuck with using a friend's smartphone, I don't think I am ready yet to produce nicely TeX'd up answers on math.SE.

…but I have seen unanswered questions that I can deal with, as soon as I get my computer back.

11:22 AM

No problem. I will at least at a comment linking to this chat that this is (very very probably) not possible.

According to what I was told in chat, it is not possible to create animations in WA. (At least not with the free version.) — Martin Sleziak 35 secs ago

Szabolcs

12:13 PM

Regarding this question, do you guys know any tools that can do purely edge routing if the vertex coordinates are given? I need something that can be controlled programmatically. yEd is good, but it's a GUI program.

12:35 PM

Nice question, how'd I miss it? Too bad I'm out of votes again today…

Kuba

@Mr.Wizard Do you know how to prevent shrinking Buttons when the window is narrowed down?

Grid[
 {{
   Grid@List@Table[
      Pane@
       Button[Image@Rasterize@Graphics[Disk[], ImageSize -> 60], 1,
        ImageSize -> All],
      {5}],
   1
   }},
 ItemSize -> {{Scaled@.7, Scaled@.3}}, Alignment -> {{Left, Right}}]

without stating explicit ImageSize of buttons.

or @ anyone else ;)

1:37 PM

@Kuba I think I should know but I can't remember. Let me see what I can find.

Kuba

@Mr.Wizard What I'm currently doing is to apply Imag[#,ImageSize->ImageDimensions[#]]& on the label

it works but I lots a lot of time to track this down.

Action menu in this case does not care and behaves properly.

So my controllers were varying with size and I was looking for the cause.

Only by accident I found out it is because of "automatic" behaviour...

$%^&, those incosistencies in default options are pissing me off -.-

@Kuba I think a second insertion of ImageSize -> All behaves as you want:

Grid[{{Grid@
    List@Table[Button[
       Image[Rasterize@Graphics[Disk[], ImageSize -> 60], Automatic, ImageSize -> All], 1,
        ImageSize -> All], {5}], 1}}, ItemSize -> {{Scaled@.7, Scaled@.3}},
 Alignment -> {{Left, Right}}]

Kuba

@Mr.Wizard Yep, that works too, thanks.

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@Kuba If I leave out Image it seems to work too:

Grid[{{Grid@
    List@Table[Button[Rasterize@Graphics[Disk[], ImageSize -> 60], 1,
       ImageSize -> All], {5}], 1}}, ItemSize -> {{Scaled@.7, Scaled@.3}},
 Alignment -> {{Left, Right}}]

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kirma

5:13 PM

Oh joy. Yet another kernel-crasher: DiscretizeRegion[Polygon[{{0, 1}, {0, 0}, {0, 1}, {1, 0}}]]...