The shading operation consist of let a background picture be rendered with different gradients of colors or light/dark. The {shading} tag is related to questions in which a shade operation is required.
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How to create a line with “radial” shading? [duplicate]
How would you draw a black line with TikZ that shades to white/transparent radially (like this) between two coordinates?
Shading is possible for rectangles (TikZ documentation, Ch. 46), though I can ...
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How to shade a line and how to offset a line?
Newbie here. Could anyone tell me how to (1) shade a line and (2) how to offset a line?
I have a very simple graph,
This is a mesh used in finite element analysis, I have already used tikz to build ...
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Can fuzzy borders be added to external pictures programmatically?
In my opinion, external pictures are often more pleasing to the eye on a white background when they have fuzzy rather than "sharp" borders. For instance, compare this
to that
Adding fuzzy ...
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Quoting styles, technical an appreciation questions
I know there has been some questions about the quote style, I loved the one with the big quote marks. What I'm trying to achieve it's a little simpler.
Right now I have something like this:
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opacity and shading of an ellipse
I am making a picture of the tidal force effects on the Earth. My current picture is decent but I would like where the bulging occurs on the edges to be little bit darker in blue, but I don't want ...
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How to pimp my tube?
How can I pimp my tube?
\documentclass{scrartcl}
% needs logicpuzzle bundle v1.8
% http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/logicpuzzle/logicpuzzle.sty
% or replace logicpuzzle -> battleship
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How do I get rid of the white background underneath my shadow? [duplicate]
I have selected a specific background for my beamer slides and I am using the theorem environment for my theorems. When I turn the shadows on for the blocks however, instead of giving me nice shadows ...
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TikZ: shade also the border of a node
I would like to shade a node and the border of the node.
The following code works but I don't like it very much that I have to draw something after the node on the background layer. I would prefer a ...
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How to create a shade box that covers the whole footnotes area?
I would like to shade the whole footnote area (bottom of the page). Does anyone know, if it can be done ?
Edit : Using the answer provided, the text direction commands \setRL and \setLR, from the ...
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TikZ shadings and printing incompatibility
I would like to use some effects provided by the shadings library of tikz. More specifically, I am trying to use the ball and radial shadings (tikz 2.10 manual, p. 412-).
The resulting pdf looks ok ...
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TikZ/PGF - switching off shading
Is there a way to switch off shading for one node, in a scope where the nodes are shaded?
In other words, I want something like shading=none, but did not find it. Motivation:
\documentclass{article}
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Is it possible to shade an area of a picture using the xcolor package?
I want to shade an area of of picture I have created in the environment \picture. Is there anyway I can shade this by setting it between co-ordinates? i.e. could I shade in blue the area between ...
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Filling area between two lines and an arc
I have the following diagram I would like to convert (approximately) to tikz:
So far, I've succeeded at doing everything except the shading. I am a newbie to tikz and learning the best I can so ...
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TikZ, 3d library and circle fading
I'm using the 3d library to put a circle on the z=0 plane, and other things. I'd like to fade this circle radially, but the result isn't as I would expect because the fading is not proportional to the ...
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TikZ: radial shading of a ring
I would like to have a radial shading of a ring, from inner color (red) at inner radius r1 > 0 to outer color (white) at outer radius r2 > r1. But with
\filldraw[even odd rule,inner color=red,outer ...
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Getting rid of a thin framing line when shading a triangle
I am trying to draw a shaded triangle with tikz, using the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill[top color=green!40,middle ...
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Table alignment with inner table and hline
There are 3 issues with this table. After much experimenting, I can sort of resolve 1 or 2 of them but never all 3 at the same time. I have a very picky customer (aren't they all) and I have to get ...
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Shading an area bounded by curved paths between nodes
I am drawing a graph of sorts in TikZ, and I have several connected nodes in a cycle, and I would like to shade the area bounded by paths between those nodes. My problem is that the shading is not ...
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How can I remove the shade in this TikZ picture to get white filling?
I want pure white fill so that upper most circle becomes incomplete.
But black shade comes in the figure. Is there any easier way to do this?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Beamer shadows are different in pdfLateX and XeLaTeX
I am getting different results on the shadows beneath the boxes (title page and all others) depending on whether I compile with pfdLaTeX or XeLaTeX. When compiling with pdfLaTeX the shading works as ...
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How to draw a shaded sphere?
Andrew Stacey pointed out that the Rosetta Code entry "Draw a Sphere" doesn't have a TikZ entry yet.
Is there a way to draw a "properly" shaded sphere using TikZ? The ball shading would seem an ...
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Set table background hatched and shaded using tikz
I am looking for a convenient way to set the background of tabular cells. I'd like to do two things:
(1) Set the background shaded in a color
(2) Set the background hatched
I learned that the TikZ ...
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How to create a ball shading and to customize 3D lighting manually?
TikZ shading=ball will create a perfect 3D ball perspective, but it has no option to change the lighting angle, the contract, radius of light, etc (or I am not aware of). I tried to create a 3D ball ...
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Change colors/contrast in beamer navigation between active and dimmed section
The code below gives the following output for the head:
Here the first section on the left is active and the others not, but the difference is quite small, I would like the active section to be in ...
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Shading a block of my text
I would like to surround some source code in my beamer presentation with a lightly shaded box.
More specifically in the C++ source code given below, I would like to
shade the code block of the ...
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How can I change the shading of beamer's \tableofcontents[currentsection]?
I like to use \tableofcontents[currentsection] as an orientation at the start of a new section. But in my experience (depending on the projector), the default shading of the other sections can be to ...
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How to shade mindmap concepts?
I tried to add a shade on my mindmap's concepts with
\begin{tikzpicture}[mindmap, text=white,
every concept/.append style={circle,shading=ball, ball color=black!20!white!20}]
but the problem is ...
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Shadings in head
I am currently trying to code in beamer the following image. So far I got the three beamercolorbox but I can't get the shaded background.
Here is the aspect I want:
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It's possible to remove the internal shading from a beamer rounded box?
I'm trying to modify a Beamer template in order to have at the same time:
1) rounded boxes
2) shadows around the box
3) a defined line (without shading) between block title and block body (as in ...
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Inconsistent shading [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I avoid compiling twice?
I am shading first page using following code.
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\shade[left color=white,right ...
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Tikz: How to shade a node
I have made a graph with TikZ and now I would like to apply a shading to some of the nodes but I can't seem to find out how to do that.
This doesn't work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
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How to use ball shading on non-circle shapes?
If using ball shading on non-circle elements, it will well apply the shading effect, but it will use the default blue color. How to use ball shading with the element color.
\node[text ...
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Is lualatex supposed to be a superset of pdflatex? (regarding production of PDF)
In other words, is it a bug if lualatex cannot compile a document that pdflatex can?
Based on the answers to this question
How to expand TeX's "main memory size"? (pgfplots memory ...
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Shading over a single page
I want to generate shading color in background for a single page. How can I implement this?
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how can I shade an area in a beamer frame?
I have a beamer frame, and I want to shade a whole area with some color - i.e. that the whole area (rectangular) will be using a single grey color switched from any color (except for white) appearing ...
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Beamer round blocks without fading
I want to define a custom block in beamer.
Here are my definitions:
\documentclass[svgnames]{beamer}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\setbeamertemplate{blocks}[rounded]
\setbeamercolor{block ...
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beamer: shading the block environment
I want the block environment to be shaded in blue, because now it is hardly noticeable. The LaTeX code I'm using is
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\mode<beamer>{%
\usetheme[hideothersubsections,
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Polyline shading in TikZ
Is it possible to apply a shading effect on one side of a polyline in TikZ? I have the following simple code
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (1.06,9.56) -- (1.44,9.78) -- (1.78,9.56) -- (2.14,9.79) -- ...
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Is there a way to tune ball shading in TikZ ?
I want to create a Go stone in TikZ. "ball color" option in node style is almost OK.
Here is my result:
But I don't like the stones, they are "too balish".
The "reflection" should be less spot-on ...
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Shaded continuous across new enumerate environment
I'm trying to write up solutions where I include the original problem text, in a light gray shaded box. I had been creating the shading with the 'framed' package shaded environment, but some of the ...
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How to change the background color of \framebox?
I'm trying to change a picture drawn using the plain picture environment and I need to change the background color of certain \framebox to lightgrey. Is it possible?
I know that there are more ...
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How to make shaded pages and still see memoir's trim frame?
I am using memoir and I have the showtrims setting activated which I want visible on my pages. I am trying to toggle shading of entire pages and so far I am not having any great success. I have looked ...
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How to learn to create General (Functional) Shadings wifth pgf?
In the section called General (Functional) Shadings in the PGF/TikZ manual, there is an "explanation" of the command to create a general functional shading.
The author of this section assumes that ...
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Cylinder shading with PGF/TikZ
I'm trying to create a cylinder with 3D shading effects. The cylinders in the picture are standing vertically, and have a body and an end. I'd like the body to be shaded so that it varies uniformly ...
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Beamer: Vertical shading + plain frame leaves white strip at top of page
I've created my own beamer theme which uses a vertical shading for the background, but whenever I'm using a plain frame a thin white strip is left at the top of the page.
I've created a minimum ...
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Fading a path in TikZ
I want to draw a path/plot in TikZ whose shade depends on the coordinate. For example, I want say something like
\draw[color=black!\x] plot coordinates{ coord1 ... coord100};
i.e. the shade of the ...
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Beamer: How to remove shadow under the title on a given frame?
On one particular frame I would like to remove the shadow that the theme I am using inserts under the title. The reason is that with a black background (which I use only on this frame), it looks quite ...
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Tikz: How to encapsulate shade in node?
I have this shaded circle:
\shade [ball color=black!80!white] (0,0) circle (1);
Is it possible to encapsulate it with node style?
Including fixing circle radius?
