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		josephagoss on Nov 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Thr... Hey unconed, is it possible to drop mathematical functions into this? Or do you have to code them in? What I mean is can this partially replace Mathematica? Can we type a mathematical formula and have the software build the animations?

unconed on Nov 16, 2012 [–]

You have write a JavaScript function to calculate the data points. There is no editor or UI for it, but the API is pretty simple. There are examples on GitHub, view source on this for example:

http://acko.net/files/mathbox/MathBox.js/examples/ComplexExp...

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