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How to draw the right ascension and declination of a vector in a rotated coordinate frame in TikZ?
During my research I came across the illustration of two reference frames. In my opinion this illustration is lacking, because the coordinate systems are not drawn. This makes it hard to understand, ...
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Draw an aircraft with Tikz
I want to draw a plane using the Tikz tool.
You will find, attached, a screenshot.
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How to project text onto a plane?
I'm trying to create the impression that the text "slice" in the example below is written on the cube slice. What is the best solution? To slant the text?
\documentclass{standalone}
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spherical coordinates in tikz 3d
Can we specify direction in spherical coordinates?
I know we can do polar (angle:radius) but what is we are using tikz-3d and want to specify (r, theta, phi) where theta is the azimuthal angle?
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Draw polarized light
I was trying to draw something like that
Searching through the net to see if it already exists in tikz I came accross in texample.net the following image which looks a lot like what I want to draw.
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3answers
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Drawing a 3D cone
I want to create some thing like this ,
but instead of a box, I use another object (a dog silhouette). Here is what I have so far
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}[scale=0.25, xshift=70, ...
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1answer
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ray from the origin of a sphere to the radius
In my previous post shifting a sphere, I have two spheres which were lifted from texexamples.net
On the left bottom side, there is a sphere with a ray from the center to the radius of the sphere.
I ...
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Shifting a sphere in code from Texample.net
From Texamples - Stereographic and cylindrical map projections, I decided to use the first sphere.
However, I want to setup two spheres.
When I add another sphere, only the shaded circle shifts ...
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How to draw a 3d cylinder using TikZ-3dplot?
I'm trying to draw a 3d cylinder using TikZ-3dplot, but the cylinder walls are not aligned properly (as you can see in the image).
Does anybody knows what am I doing wrong?
\documentclass{article}
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How to draw spherical using 3dplot
I would like do draw some sphericals using the package 3dplot. Does anybody know how to draw spericals with different diameter and postition in a coordinate system like that one?
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1answer
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Intersecting planes not shown correctly with TikZ
I made a plot in MATLAB of a deformed and an undeformed model. I converted the figure to TikZ using matlab2tikz and added it to my .tex file. I then noticed that the two configurations, which are ...
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Projection of Circle onto Spherical Surface
I want to draw shapes looks like 15 degrees tilted-semi-sphere and there are circles, placed in a triangular shaped array, on the base area. Then these circles are projected onto surface of sphere.
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drawing a circle in the xy plane when using 3d coordinates
I am trying to make a circle in the xy plane that has walls that slope up. How can I do this? Basically a bucket with a bigger opening then base.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz, ...
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Draw 3D rectangle
I've been searching this for hours, but didn't find a reason for this behaviour:
Here is my example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{3d}
\begin{document}
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4answers
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How to draw a 3D hexagonal structure with TikZ?
What is the best way in TikZ to draw a hexagonal stucture in 3D? For example, graphite crystals, honeycombs or stable racks made of hexagonal aligned stiffeners.
I already found this nice solution: ...
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Tikz: intersection of line and plane
I am struggling with drawing a plane and a intersecting line. I would like to have the line C,P',P in the image, disappear if it is "behind" the plane and have it reappear if it is not behind the ...
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1answer
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tikz-3dplot rotation around the X axis?
I'm trying to create a simple spherical quadrant grid using the tikz-3dplot package. The longitudinal grid lines look fine but when I try to create the latitudinal lines I get really strange results ...
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How do I replace an XYZ coordinate system on an already available plot? [closed]
I have an eps file looking like this:
I have no access to the original dataset, so replotting it is not an option. I would like to replace the ugly 80s style coordinate system (Both the captions ...
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Isometric Elevation Grid in TikZ
Is there a (simplistic?) way to draw a 3D elevation grid like this in Tikz or PGFPlots?
The blue line should be able to move up or down and, eventually, submerge the interior blocks.
I've looked ...
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1answer
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2D surface on a 3D surface plot external data in a file
I am drawing a 3D surface from external data. Here they are:
0 0 -0.64
1 0 -0.5
2 0 -0.4
3 0 -0.31
4 0 -0.23
5 0 -0.2
6 0 -0.24
7 0 -0.32
8 0 -0.42
9 0 -0.59
10 0 -0.76
0 1 -0.54
1 1 -0.4
2 1 -0.27
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1answer
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How to draw the outlines of a patch in pgfplots?
In pgfplots the patch plot library allows to basically draw 3D bezier planes easily. This is very helpful if the exact mathematical form of a plane is not known or not important. What I have not ...
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TikZ: draw objects in transparent objects (3d)
I want to draw a cuboid in another transparent cuboid with TikZ.
Therefore I've created a \newcommand to draw a cuboid.
\documentclass[11pt, halfparskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{ucs}
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Drawing specific curves/planes [closed]
I want to submit a paper and the only thing that's left to do is to add some graphics. My deadline is on Wednesday/Thursday.
What I want to do is some basic curve/plane drawings. Here is an image:
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Naming 3D axes in pgfplots
I want to label the axes in a 3D plot with pgfplots. Using the anchors .right of origin and .above origin, I can label the axes as "x" and "y" in 2D with ease. In 3D, the labels must be tweaked to ...
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A perpendicular line to a plane in 3D
I have two line segments identified by two end points each. Two line segments are in the same plane and intersecting at a point. I would like to draw a line (normal of the plane) passing through the ...
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1answer
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Drawing 3D crystal lattice with tikz/pstricks
I need to draw 3D lattice of DO3 type (Ni-Mn-Al, DO3) and more complex ones.
Both TiKZ and PSTricks packages draw following objects on top of previously drawn disregarding "real" 3D position. For ...
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1answer
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More elegant way to achieve this same camera perspective projection model?
I just finished a camera perspective projection model using TikZ. Although, while I'm pretty satisfied with the result, it took me a lot of time to do it. It's easy to see from the code below that I'm ...
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TikZ trapezoid transformation (vanishing point)
Within a TikZ drawing, I want to distort a 2D rasterimage (from
\includegraphics) so that it appears to be rotated by 90° around the
vertical axis in 3D (it should look perpendicular to the sheet of
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1answer
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How to draw a “Mexican hat potential” using 3dplot?
I would like to make a Mexican hat potential (like this one from Wikipedia)
drawing through TikZ, and I am sure the function to use is straightforward, but I have not managed to find the right ...
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Elliptic Moebius map on sphere using Tikz
I'm trying to adapt this example from texample to produce a sphere with arrows indicating the effect of a elliptic Moebius map.
In fact, I'm trying to redraw the spheres below, but for a while I'm ...
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PGFPLOTS 3d box line for Z axis not being drawn
The vertical 3d box line for Z axis is not being drawn. If I make the grid lines dashed, the line is drawn, but also appears dashed, as the grid lines.
To me, it looks that the line is in fact drawn, ...
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How to draw an Icosahedron?
After going through the pgf manual and also searching the web for some solution or at least a hint on how it can be done (preferably using TikZ), so I came here with my question:
How to draw an ...
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1answer
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matlab2tikz for surf plots: reducing data?
I was really happy to see that matlab2tikz also supports surf plots. Unfortunately, it produces too much data, so I run into the well-known memory problem. I tried compiling with lualatex instead of ...
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How can I draw nucleosomes with wrapped DNA in tikz or pstricks?
The nucleosome is the fundamental unit of DNA packing in cells, and I am trying to generate some figures for regular use in manuscripts and presentations. The nucleosome is commonly abstracted to a ...
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What packages or tools best support any 3D line, plane, surface intersections?
I have not explored the PSTricks' pst-solides3d, TikZ's equivalent packages, Asymptote as a tool, etc, yet.
I have a task to make some simple 3D diagrams that are related to 3D geometry subject we ...
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3d axis label ovelapping [closed]
I'm using matlab2tikz to generate the tikz code for my figures. When compiling the document with the figure code as below, I get an ovelapping with the axis label y and z.
Here is what I've got:
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Making a labeled Klein bottle using TikZ or pgfplots?
I'd like to be able to draw the following cell complex structure on the (three-dimensional embedding of the) Klein bottle using LaTeX. I am pretty pleased with my hand-drawn rendition, but LaTeX is ...
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Shading of cubes in 3D picture
The example here is just great (and even better with the implementation in the comment).
I would, however, like to have all the sides on a cube in the same color but have the color change in each ...
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1answer
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Documentation of the tikz 3d library
Where can I find the documentation of the tikz 3d library? There seems to be no such section in the manual and google didn't help me in this case.
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Best way to get the unit vector of a given vector in tikz 3d
Suppose I have a coordinate in tikz 3d which I interpret as a vector, for example
\coordinate (v) at (3,2,9);
What's the best way to get the unit vector pointing into the same direction?
My first ...
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2answers
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Drawing a central composite design
Please I would like to draw a central composite design using PSTricks, or possibly tikz. This is the cube with the axes showed below. I have tried pst-3d but this is not easy. If you had an example of ...
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Intersection of 2 surface plots in pgfplots
My question is pretty much a duplicate of this one. I'd like pgfplots to display the intersection between tho surface plots properly. Unfortunately, my function is quite different from the one in the ...
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2answers
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Drawing conic projection with TikZ
I struggle with drawing a sphere that has a cone set on top of it. What I'm trying to get is something like this:
The left cone touches the sphere on one latitude and the right one intersects the ...
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1answer
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Simplest way to draw the 3d-points in the set {0,1,2,3,4}^3 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tikz realistic 3D grid
I want to draw a finite set of 3d-points. I have been looking at examples on the web, but I have not found anything to do this (the tricky part ...
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Using 3dplot package in Beamer
I'm trying to make a 3d plot by adapting the one from the beamer gallery. I'm using LyX 2.0. I keep getting an error that LyX can't compile the file because it can't find
\begin{document}
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3D helix torus with hidden lines
How can I generate the above image using TikZ (possibly other methods will work if they produce better looking results)?
I would like to have a nicely shaded (not so dark image) without gridlines ...
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3d axis and polyhedron with line segment towards origin
I would like to make a 3d plot containing the 3d axis and a convex polyhedron or better a Dodecahedron
on the positive side for which one of its boundary edge points on its top is annotated e.g. ...
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3D surface plots in TikZ
I need to plot a surface plot using TikZ. I have the (x,y) coordinate and the corresponding function value in a table form. I have not done 3D plots before in TikZ and hence I would appreciate any ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to create 3D-Images with optical distortion and transparency effects?
Is it possible to create 3D-Images like this one:
with LaTeX (preferably tikz)? How do you do it? Are there good tutorials / documentations?
(I have seen some examples from tikz-3dplot, but these ...
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2answers
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Drawing 3D cylinder
I need to draw a lot of 3D cylinders with different dimensions.
Has anyone maybe already defined a command like \3Dcylinder{x}{y}{z}?
I found 3D bodies in TikZ
and tried the third answer. But I don't ...
