Is it possible to make a balloon-like shape in TikZ? Personally, I haven't found anything closer than an ellipse:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tikzstyle{balloon}=[ball color=red];
\shade[balloon] ellipse (2 and 1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
to
with specified angles, distances, looseness and such or directly specify a Bézier curve with the.. controls … ..
operator. — On another node: Do you want to define a PGF shape (that can be used as a node similar tocircle
andrectangle
) or do you only want to draw/fill a path shaped like a balloon? – Qrrbrbirlbel Sep 19 '13 at 14:48