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Wolfram Community is live and public!

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On Tuesday July 23, 2013 we publicly released a marvelous project I am and have been part of for a bit already – Wolfram Community. Read about it in the article I wrote for Wolfram Blog. The project in its essence is a networking portal for everyone interested in Wolfram Technologies. People can connect, share […]

Cobweb Diagrams of Elementary Cellular Automata

Cobweb Diagrams of Elementary Cellular Automata

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My recent publication at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Cobweb Diagrams of Elementary Cellular Automata “Each possible state in the evolution of an elementary cellular automaton (ECA) can be uniquely labeled by an integer. For a finite-width ECA, this set is mapped to itself during the ECA evolution. Thus an ECA defines a recurrence relation on a […]

Time Series and Cobwebs for Arbitrary Recursive Maps on the Unit Interval

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My new publication at the Wolfram Demonstration Project is Time Series and Cobwebs for Arbitrary Recursive Maps on the Unit Interval. Follow the link to view interactive version. Here is an exert from text: “The logistic map is probably the most famous and simplest example of a function from the unit interval onto itself that […]

The Shadow Of The Wind

Mighty reads: “Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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I just finished reading “Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of fiction. Exceptional style of writing wraps twists of story-line unraveling the mystery in rich poetic and metaphoric language. Besides dramatic roller-coaster of events and emotions, the book constantly induces thoughts and imagery and […]

Complex numbers, beautiful surfaces and Mathematica

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A few lines of code in Mathematica can produce beautiful images. Take as an example this simple but spectacular result of singularities in complex plane: Plot3D[Im[Sec[(x + I y)^4]], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, Mesh -> None, ClippingStyle -> None, PlotStyle -> Directive[Orange, Opacity[.8], Specularity[White, 20]], PlotPoints -> 50]

visibility graph ECA

Horizontal Visibility Graphs for Elementary Cellular Automata

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My new publication at the Wolfram Demonstration Project is Horizontal Visibility Graphs for Elementary Cellular Automata. Follow the link to view interactive version. Here is an exert from text: “A time series can be formed from an evolution of a finite elementary cellular automaton (ECA). This can be done in a few different ways. We can […]

Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny

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An article I wrote for Wolfram Blog was just released. Here is the beginning: “On early Monday morning I noticed an interesting question posted on Mathematica Stack Exchange titled quite innocently “xkcd-style graphs.” Due to the popularity of Randall Munroe’sxkcd web comic, I expected a bit more than average of about ten or so up-votes, a few bookmarks. Little did I […]

Polyhedra obtained by stellation

Posted by & filed under 3D, App, CDF, Mathematica, Wolfram.

Stellation is the process of constructing polyhedra by extending the facial planes past the polyhedron edges of a given polyhedron until they intersect. The set of all possible polyhedron edges of the stellations can be obtained by finding all intersections on the facial planes. Since the number and variety of intersections can become unmanageable for […]

Lissajous Patterns on a Sphere Surface

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Another Demonstration of mine was published at the Wolfram Demonstration Project. It helps to explore and create spherical artistic designs. I  generalized Lissajous curves to spherical coordinates. Azimuthal and polar angles undergo oscillations while the radius is kept constant. Although with the parameterization given I sought to emphasize the artistic side of Lissajous patterns, other spherical parameterizations […]

Stereoscopic 3D Macromolecule 1TF6

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Stereoscopic 3D Macromolecule 1TF6 from Vitaliy Kaurov on Vimeo. To watch this video you need “red-cyan anaglyph glasses”.  This video was made with Mathematica 7. This type of red-cyan anaglyph videos can be useful for display of complex 3D structures. Once the structure is built it takes just a few lines of Mathematica code to […]

Peter de Jong Ephemeral Attractors

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I made another video with Mathematica. The six changing shapes in the video are called attractors. They are graphical forms of a simple mathematical formula attributed to Peter de Jong. At any given moment the way a single attractor looks depends only on four numbers. A slight variation in these numbers can remarkably change the […]

“Mathematica Render” channel and group on Vimeo

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“Mathematica Render” channel and group were recently created on Vimeo to gather a community of enthusiasts designing videos using Wolfram Research Mathematica software. The goal is to promote Mathematica examples of dynamic visualizations that can be used in research, education and art. With such Mathematica capabilities as simulated camera, lighting, image processing, various export options, […]

Voronoi Image of Random Walks

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The Wolfram Demonstration Project has an excellent example by Yu-Sung Chang showing construction of a Voronoi diagram using distance transform on a set of points in 2D plane. Here same method is used on a set of points which perform random walks. All calculations and animation are done in Mathematica. Yu-Sung Chang Demonstration: demonstrations.wolfram.com/VoronoiImage/ Voronoi Image […]

Wolfram|Alpha Launches Widgets

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Wolfram Alpha LCC launched Widgets and Widget Builder on July 27, 2010. Users are now able to incorporate customizable Wolfram|Alpha queries into their websites, blogs, and social networking sites. Because of the simplicity and power of Widgets, the implications are quite remarkable. Anyone can design an app with personally customized data and calculation interface and […]

Cellular Automata Coupled by Overlap or Common Boundary

Cellular Automata Coupled by Overlap or Common Boundary

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Another short code I wrote in Mathematica language was accepted by The Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The Demonstration shows the evolution of two elementary cellular automata (CA) sharing several cells. CA are often treated as isolated systems with simple cyclic or Dirichlet boundary conditions. Realistic systems, in contrast, interact with the environment through a boundary. Boundaries […]

Geotagging and image editing with iPhone

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This image was taken, edited and geotagged with iPhone 3G. It’s a snapshot of an artist’s drawing on the ground at Union Square, NYC. iPhone apps used: Photoshop.com Mobile – to edit the image changing contrast, photo effect, etc. GPS MapCard 2 – to geotag the image embedding it in Google map

Kestutis Vaiginis and his jazz in New York

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A good friend of mine, great Lithuanian jazz saxophonists Kestutis Vaiginis, is now visiting New York to share his art. In May 2008 I made a photo shoot for him and some of the pictures were used to make the cover for his CD “Unexpected Choices “. Today Friday, February 5th he will be presenting […]

Coupled Cellular Automata: Symbiotic Patterns and Synchronization

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Trivial systems with primitive standalone behavior can produce rich dynamics working in collaboration. The Wolfram Demonstrations Project published my program which allows to couple up to four different one-dimensional elementary cellular automata. It produces some interesting patterns and behaviors beyond those of standalone cellular automata. The program is basically applies idea of coupled recursive maps […]

Simulating Flickering Fire with Noisy Cellular Automaton

Simulating Flickering Fire with Noisy Cellular Automaton

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This is another Mathematica program I wrote published by the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The program animates flickering fire with a simple mathematical algorithm using Wolfram rule-99 cellular automaton. The algorithm is based on calculation of eigenvalues of a matrix representing the cellular automaton evolution. To play with this program and to read more detailed explanation […]