EDITOR'S PICK

This week's pick: Interactive Function Manipulation for Mathematica 5.2

This is a useful demonstration of the capabilities of J/Link and Java swing. The tutorial carefully describes how the function manipulate uses J/Link and Java swing to create an environment that allows interactive function manipulation.

See past Editor's Picks:

• Streamlines for uniform flow past a rotating solid cylinder by Housam Binous
• Blind Restoration of Astronomical Images by G. Spaletta
• Options Explorer by Yuri Kandrashkin
• Interfacing Hardware with Mathematica by Zhe Hu
• Selections Browser by Yuri Kandrashkin
• LiveGraphics3D Commands by Jonathan Rogness
• ViewPoint selector for Plot3D and ListPlot3D by Yuri Kandrashkin
• Rayica by Donald Barnhart
• LensLab by Donald Barnhart
• Accretion Disks in Binary Star Systems by Jeffrey M. Bryant
• Complex Continued Fractions by Doug Hensley
• Control System Professional Suite, Product Review by Béla Paláncz, Zoltán Benyó, Levente Kovács
• Space-curves & Generalized Knots in Mathematica by Roger Beresford
• Summa: Symbolic Sums Manipulation by Peltio
• Wolfram Notebook Indexer for Windows Version 1.1 by Wolfram Research, Inc.
• Cellerator: extending a computer algebra system to include biochemical arrows for signal transduction simulations by Bruce E Shapiro, Andre Levchenko, Elliot Meyerowitz, Barbara Wold, Eric Mjolsness
• Fitch's Card Trick by Zhe Hu
• Genetically Seeking Sparse Rulers by David Fowler
• Rhombic Spirallohedra by Russell Towle
• Colored Zonotiles by Russell Towle
• Ammann Tiling by Sasho Kalajdzievski
• The Peano Curve by Gabriel Chenevert
• Chaotic Pinball Billiards by Iacovos Kyprianou
• Penrose Tiles by Lyman P. Hurd