Mathematica 8 strengthens its scientific and information visualization capabilities, including dedicated support for visualizing discrete univariate and bivariate functions with rich support for custom renderings. Charting functions now include a new pairwise bar chart, new chart element functions, and support for scaling functions. Mathematica 8 also introduces support for textures and custom texture mappings in visualization functions as well as dedicated support for control systems and wavelet visualization.

• New generation of visualization for discrete univariate and bivariate functions. »
• Library of discrete extent element functions for rich rendering of discrete functions.
• New paired bar chart. »
• Support for scaling functions in bar charts, histograms, bubble charts, etc. »
• New chart element functions for 3D bar charts etc.
• Support for textures in surface visualization functions. »
• Fully customizable texture mapping for visualization functions. »
• Control system visualizations, such as root locus and Bode plots. »
• Wavelet visualizations, such as scalograms and image plots. »

Associate Regions with Discrete Points »	Associate Regions with Discrete Points in 3D »	Different Univariate ExtentElementFunction »
Different Bivariate ExtentElementFunction »	Control Extent Region Boundaries »	Control 3D Extent Region Boundaries »
Visualize Discrete Univariate Distribution Functions »	Visualize Bivariate Discrete Distribution Functions »	Visualize Riemann Sums »
Visualize 3D Riemann Sums »	Create Population Pyramids »	Apply Textures to Surfaces and Regions »
Control Texture Scaling and Placement »	Show the Gradient Field on a Surface »	Create Scaled Histograms »
Use Custom Scaling Functions »	Overlay Surfaces with Additional Information »	Create Root Locus Plots »
Create Nyquist Plots »	Create Bode Plots »	Create Nichols Plots »
Visualize Wavelets with Scalograms »	Create Matrix Plots of Discrete Wavelet Transforms »	Create Image Plots of Discrete Wavelet Transforms »

RELATED FUNCTIONS

DiscretePlot  DiscretePlot3D  ExtentSize  ExtentMarkers  ExtentElementFunction  ScalingFunctions  TextureCoordinateFunction  TextureCoordinateScaling  BarChart  PairedBarChart  BarChart3D  Histogram  Histogram3D  BubbleChart  BubbleChart3D  Plot3D  ListPlot3D  ParametricPlot  ParametricPlot3D  ContourPlot3D  ListContourPlot3D  RegionPlot  RegionPlot3D  BodePlot  NicholsPlot  NyquistPlot  SingularValuePlot  RootLocusPlot  WaveletScalogram  WaveletImagePlot  WaveletMatrixPlot  WaveletListPlot