{"id":4185,"date":"2012-02-17T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2012-02-17T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:35:27","slug":"a-preview-of-interactive-mathematica-documents-on-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4185","title":{"rendered":"A preview of interactive Mathematica documents on iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wolfram blog has just published an article previewing the .cdf player on iPad<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve discussed .cdf technology several times before (see Interactive Slinky Thing<\/a> and Interactive Mathematics in the Web Browser<\/a> for example)\u00a0and it forms the basis of the superb Wolfram Demonstrations Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, it is trivially easy to write interactive mathematical applets using Mathematica and publish them to .cdf format. \u00a0The magic happens via the Manipulate<\/a> command which has been around since version 6. \u00a0For example, here is the full source code for a simple interactive applet that calculates and displays the power series for sin(x)<\/p>\n

Manipulate[\r\n Series[Sin[x], {x, 0, n}]\r\n , {n, 1, 10, 1, Appearance -> \"Labeled\"}\r\n ]<\/pre>\n
Here is the result
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