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I would like to arrange images in a beamer presentation without having to set them in a predefined position. Is there a package or a fast way to place randomly into the beamer a given number of images?

\begin{figure}
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{img1}
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{img2}
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{img3}
\end{figure}

I would like to move them in the beamer and not having them on the same line.

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    Welcome to TeX.SX! Please provide a minimal working example (MWE) to demonstrate your set-up. – Andrew Swann Mar 7 '15 at 14:47
  • How move, during presentation or while preparing the document? – AlexG Mar 7 '15 at 15:29
  • I updated my answer with a command allowing you to use any number of images. – Gonzalo Medina Mar 7 '15 at 17:27
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You can use TikZ's nodes and rnd to randomize the position; the command \PlaceImageRnd has as mandatory argument a comma separated list of the image name files:

\PlaceImageRnd{<image-1>,<image-2>,...,<image-n>}

The line

\pgfmathsetseed{\pdfuniformdeviate 10000000}

makes each run of the code to update the locations.

The code:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand\PlaceImageRnd[1]{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}
  \pgfmathsetseed{\pdfuniformdeviate 10000000}
  \pgfmathparse{2.0*rnd+1.0}
  \foreach \Image in {#1}
  {
    \node at (10*rnd,6*rnd) 
      {\includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{\Image}};
  }
  \end{tikzpicture}% 
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\PlaceImageRnd{example-image-a,example-image-b,example-image-c}
\end{frame} 

\end{document}

On the first run I got:

enter image description here

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  • Is it possible to ensure the nodes don't overlap? – Croolman Jun 11 '19 at 8:46

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