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How do I generate in LaTeX a list of random questions avoiding repetitions?

How do I generate in LaTeX a list of random questions avoiding repetitions? \documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex]{exerquiz} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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How to draw a smooth random blob with TikZ? [duplicate]

How can I draw a smooth, "natural" looking blob with TikZ? My approach \begin{tikzpicture} \draw [] (0,0)node[circle,draw,decorate,decoration={random steps,segment length=.3cm,amplitude=1cm},rounded ...
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How to draw a rectangle filled with random size circular pattern?

I wish to generate a rectangle with circular features present within (to represent water particles), something like this: Which shows that the incoming radiation decreases with distance (as ...
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Toward a Stamper Package

Imagine that you want to simulate a hand stamp on every page in some large documents. It must be an imperfect print, with random page-to-page variations in ink intensity, fading, rotation and blur. ...
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tikz: Distribute evenly and randomly circles

I want to fill a part of a picture with more or less evenly and randomly distributed circles which should not overlap. It would be okay if circles are only partly inside the shape. The density should ...
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Tikz randomly placed groups of objects

I would like to place several groups of three objects (two circle paths and one node) in a triangular area. I came up with the following code, which is based on a subdivision of the triangle in ...
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TikZ: decoration - random steps: how to get twice exactly the same shape?

I'm creating a beamer presentation, in which I use TikZ. I am making a figure, on which I would like to highlight something (using \only<> command). My figure contains an ellipse that is ...
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How to randomly shuffle a sliced image?

I have no idea to shuffle the following grids of a sliced image. How to do this in (La)TeX or PostScript level? \documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone} \usepackage{multido} ...
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Random scale of square makes a rectangle

Why does this code generates a rectangle, not a square? \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[scale=rnd] (0,0) rectangle (1,1); ...
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Automatically generated BINGO cards

I am trying to automatically generate a series of BINGO cards. So, I need a 5 x 5 table with square cells that allow text wrapping. I also want to randomly assign a word to each cell from a "bank" ...
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Defining variables in TikZ

I'm trying to define random variables - for example to draw some random points of the form (r,r) when r is a random number. I tried \def\myrandomnumber{rnd}, but that seems to give me a new random ...
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Naming coordinates in a foreach loop

I have the following problem: I am using beamer together with tikz, and I want to use some random points in a drawing which is shown over a couple of slides. If I use the normal random method, the ...
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Storing the result of a random number in tikzpicture

I am drawing a surface composed of rigid "molecules" composed of three spheres each. I want to add some randomness to the surface. I have created this code: \begin{tikzpicture} \def\nuPi{3.1459265} ...
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Conditional using non-integer numbers

I am trying to generate fractals using affine transformations. I need to generate a random number in the interval (0,1), and depending on the value of this random number choose a function to ...