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InterCall &
Mathematica
Mathematica
For information about Mathematica see the
Mathematica Home Page.
An archive of Mathematica related material is kept at
MathSource Home Page.
You can directly
keyword search
MathSource to find a Mathematica package or document etc.
Inside your WWW reader you might need to use
MathReader to view the Notebooks referenced in this document.
[UPDATE: there is now a
Notebook to HTML
conversion program (nb2html), which will let you view Notebooks
directly as HTML documents.]
What is InterCall?
InterCall is a package that lets you to import external code
(typically Fortran) into Mathematica
(the computer algebra program).
With InterCall you can:
- import routines written in Fortran or C and call them as if they
were normal Mathematica functions.
- call external routines on a remote computer.
- access routines in the IMSL,
NAG
and other subroutine libraries.
(E.G.)
- write your own interface to yet more external libraries.
- easily access your own user-written code.
More information and examples are given below.
Contact
intercall_forward@wri.com
for other queries.
Some Applications of
Mathematica and InterCall
Here's a list of applications
involving differential equations:
And more application areas will be placed here soon, including one
about a Fire animation (760K).
For now have a look at the MathSource entries
about the
Traveling Salesman Problem
(see also the 100K QuickTime
animation)
and also a Notebook about
Mandelbrot computation
(see also the
graphic, and now
the HTML version).
InterCall Information
Here's a short
flyer (6K) about InterCall.
There are a couple of newsletters around too:
And there are quite a few
Notebooks at MathSource, as well as some equivalent
HTML Notebooks kept here.
See, for example, the
NAG/IMSL
and
more NAG/IMSL
examples. And also the
Mandelbrot compiling,
and
Fire examples.
Contact
intercall_forward@wri.com
for ordering information.
Mathematica Graphics Gallery
Here's a short graphics gallery rendered with Mathematica:
Click on the above images to view them full size. And here are some more:
Cow,
Hammer-head Shark,
Volkswagen,
'57 Chevy,
P51 Mustang,
Foot Bones,
Tennis Shoe,
Roman Sandal,
etc.
And here are the original datasets
that these images were rendered from.
Planetarium
Here's a useful
Planet Chart (36K) for 1994.
It was created using the Planetarium.m package written for Mathematica.
(See information
and manual.)
The Planet Chart given here has been converted to GIF format, but the
Planetarium.m package produces a higher resolution Postscript version.
The package can produce many useful plots,
for example here's a plot of the Total Eclipse that occured on
1 Nov 1948.
And here's a radial starchart centred on the constellation of
Crux (the Southern Cross).
Animations can be done too.
Here's a QuickTime
animation
(350K) of the planets for the next 10 years. And here's a small QuickTime
animation of a simulation of comet
Shoemaker-Levy/9 (42K) hitting Jupiter.
Fluid Flow
Here's a QuickTime animation of
unsteady fluid flow (900K) around a cylinder.
The animation was computed using InterCall and Mathematica.
And here's a comparison with the
experimental (50K) result.
For higher Reynolds numbers here's
what the
flow
would look like.
Miscellaneous
Contact Terry Robb
at tdr@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
