I want to shade the predefined node shape "circular sector" pgfman301a,p 706, from the marked anchor points (sector center and arc center). The draw is based on pgfman301a,p.686. It's "on axis" drawing but not possible for me.

   \documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{mindmap,%to get annotations
decorations.fractals,
decorations.pathmorphing,
decorations.text,
positioning,
shapes.geometric,

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5,
transform shape
]

\tikzset{shape circlesec/.style={bottom color=red,
middle color=green,
top color=white,
draw,
%fill=yellow!30,
line width=0.1pt,
inner xsep=0pt,
inner ysep=0pt,
}
}%end tikzset

\node [name=maerz,
shape=circular sector,
style=shape circlesec,
inner sep=0cm,
circular sector angle=30,
shape border uses incircle,
shape border rotate=-165,
anchor=sector center,inner sep=-2mm,%
minimum size = 6.6cm,%has an effect if the original size was smaller
]
(maerz) at (0,0) {};

%\draw[top color=white,bottom color=black,middle color=violet]%
%   (maerz.arc center) circular sector  (maerz.sector center);

\foreach \anchor/\placement in
{arc center/right, sector center/below left}
\draw[shift=(maerz.\anchor)] plot[mark=x] coordinates{(0,0)}
node[\placement] {\scriptsize\texttt{(maerz.\anchor)}};

\draw let \p1=($(maerz.north)-(maerz.sector center)$),\n1={int(1+\y1*1pt/1cm)}%
in
\pgfextra{\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\xmax}{\n1}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\nextx}{\xmax-1}
}%end pgfextra code
foreach \x in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(\x,1pt) -- (\x,-1pt) node[anchor=north,font=\tiny]{ $\x$} }
foreach \y in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(1pt,\y) -- (-1pt,\y) node[anchor=east,font=\tiny]{($\y$)}};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}\grid


the violet draw works and one can see how the rotate angle should work. but i cannot. seems to need more.

 \documentclass[]{standalone}

  \usepackage{tikz}

\usetikzlibrary{calc,shapes.geometric,backgrounds}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5,
transform shape
]

\tikzset{shape circlesec/.append style={bottom color=red,
top color=green,
middle color=white,
draw,
line width=0.1pt,
inner xsep=0pt,
inner ysep=0pt,
}
}%end tikzset

\node [name=maerz,
shape=circular sector,
style=shape circlesec,
inner sep=0cm,
circular sector angle=30,
shape border uses incircle,
shape border rotate=-165,
anchor=sector center,inner sep=-2mm,%
minimum size = 6.6cm,%has an effect if the original size was smaller
]
(maerz) at (0,0) {};

(maerz.arc center) rectangle  (maerz.sector center);

\foreach \anchor/\placement in
{arc center/right, sector center/below left}
\draw[shift=(maerz.\anchor)] plot[mark=x] coordinates{(0,0)}
node[\placement] {\scriptsize\texttt{(maerz.\anchor)}};

\draw let \p1=($(maerz.north)-(maerz.sector center)$),\n1={int(1+\y1*1pt/1cm)}%
in
\pgfextra{\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\xmax}{\n1}%set var xmax from value of n1 s.a.
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\nextx}{\xmax-1}
}%end pgfextra code
foreach \x in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(\x,1pt) -- (\x,-1pt) node[anchor=north,font=\tiny]{ $\x$} }
foreach \y in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(1pt,\y) -- (-1pt,\y) node[anchor=east,font=\tiny]{($\y$)}};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


above code generates the violet draw (progr. inconvenient)

• Could you please try to make the question a bit clearer? Your code produces a shaded segment. What precisely do you want to change? (and out of all the libraries you load you only need \usetikzlibrary{calc,shapes.geometric} and \grid after \end{document} can probably be dropped.) – user121799 Jan 5 at 23:35
• top color should begin at arc center, middle color follows to bottom color at sector center or v.v. pgfman says draw along a path you can shade this path. so i want to draw between these coords. – gizeh Jan 5 at 23:54
• I see how this can be confusing. You need to add the colors in the right order: bottom color=red,top color=white,middle color=green,. Ironically, middle color cannot be in the middle. – user121799 Jan 6 at 0:01
• i have changed it and right green has appeared. but is it possible by angle rotate(i see no effect?) or something else to make as mentioned above the sequence of the colors shading from centre to out (petal). – gizeh Jan 6 at 0:08
• I do not really understand your comment. Yes, there is radial shading. Do you want to use that? (If not, consider using a shading angle of 15, which seems more appropriate than 60 for this shape.) BTW, you set the shading angle twice: once in the definition of shape circlesec and then when you actually draw the node. The second setting overrides the first one. – user121799 Jan 6 at 0:10

Here is some radial shading. A 3-color radial shading has been proposed in this very nice answer. However, I was unable to make the middle color very visible, even though I played with the parameters. Well, all I can say is that the author of this nice shading left a question "later - shading is assumed to be 100bp diameter ??". If she does not know, how would a poor marmot know, in particular during hibernation time? I copied the code such that you or others can play with it.

Luckily you want the middle color to be white, so I could use plan B, which is path fading in this case. So that's my proposal.

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\makeatletter
% from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/127045/121799
\makeatother
inner color=transparent!100,
outer color=transparent!0]

}
\tikzset{% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/372682/121799
\tikzset{%
#1
}
},
},
},
},
inner color/.style={
},
outer color/.style={
},
mid color/.style={
},
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5,
transform shape
]

\tikzset{shape circlesec/.style={
draw,
line width=0.1pt,
inner xsep=0pt,
inner ysep=0pt,
}
}%end tikzset

\node [name=maerz,save path=\pathA,
shape=circular sector,
style=shape circlesec,
inner sep=0cm,
circular sector angle=30,
shape border uses incircle,
shape border rotate=-165,
anchor=sector center,inner sep=-2mm,%
minimum size = 6.6cm,%has an effect if the original size was smaller
]
(maerz) at (0,0) {};
\begin{scope}[on background layer]
\clip[use path=\pathA];
\p1=($(maerz.arc center)-(maerz.sector center)$),\n1={veclen(\y1,\x1)}
in (maerz.sector center) circle (\n1);
\end{scope}
\foreach \anchor/\placement in
{arc center/right, sector center/below left}
\draw[shift=(maerz.\anchor)] plot[mark=x] coordinates{(0,0)}
node[\placement] {\scriptsize\texttt{(maerz.\anchor)}};

\draw let \p1=($(maerz.north)-(maerz.sector center)$),\n1={int(1+\y1*1pt/1cm)}%
in
\pgfextra{\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\xmax}{\n1}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\nextx}{\xmax-1}
}%end pgfextra code
foreach \x in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(\x,1pt) -- (\x,-1pt) node[anchor=north,font=\tiny]{ $\x$} }
foreach \y in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(1pt,\y) -- (-1pt,\y) node[anchor=east,font=\tiny]{($\y$)}};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


Of course, you could add another color by superimposing \tikzfading[name=fade out,inner color=transparent!0,outer color=transparent!100] from p. 344 of the pgfmanual.

OLD ANSWER: When using shadings, ironically the middle color has to come last, and not in the middle.

\documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,shapes.geometric}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5,
transform shape
]

\tikzset{shape circlesec/.style={bottom color=red,
top color=white,
middle color=green,
draw,
%fill=yellow!30,
line width=0.1pt,
inner xsep=0pt,
inner ysep=0pt,
}
}%end tikzset

\node [name=maerz,
shape=circular sector,
style=shape circlesec,
inner sep=0cm,
circular sector angle=30,
shape border uses incircle,
shape border rotate=-165,
anchor=sector center,inner sep=-2mm,%
minimum size = 6.6cm,%has an effect if the original size was smaller
]
(maerz) at (0,0) {};

%\draw[top color=white,bottom color=black,middle color=violet]%
%   (maerz.arc center) circular sector  (maerz.sector center);

\foreach \anchor/\placement in
{arc center/right, sector center/below left}
\draw[shift=(maerz.\anchor)] plot[mark=x] coordinates{(0,0)}
node[\placement] {\scriptsize\texttt{(maerz.\anchor)}};

\draw let \p1=($(maerz.north)-(maerz.sector center)$),\n1={int(1+\y1*1pt/1cm)}%
in
\pgfextra{\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\xmax}{\n1}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\nextx}{\xmax-1}
}%end pgfextra code
foreach \x in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(\x,1pt) -- (\x,-1pt) node[anchor=north,font=\tiny]{ $\x$} }
foreach \y in {-\xmax,-\nextx,...,\xmax}
{(1pt,\y) -- (-1pt,\y) node[anchor=east,font=\tiny]{($\y$)}};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


When playing with your code, I found that these shapes have the unexpected behavior of being resistant to fit....

• arc should be read then visible different middle color, centre of circle part third color. have read it whith the sequence in man. nothing help. why the commented draw command doesn't work? i have changed predefined node shape "rectangle" with predefined node shape "circular sector". Coords are valid node anchors – gizeh Jan 6 at 0:22
• @gizeh I added something with radial shading. Do you want something like this? Possibly with a different color in the middle? – user121799 Jan 6 at 0:35
• yes yes thats it – gizeh Jan 6 at 0:57
• @gizeh What does "that's it" mean? Is the question answered? – user121799 Jan 6 at 0:59
• @gizeh It is IMHO not at all easy nor solved. Those who understand the postcript language in section 109.2.3 General (Functional) Shadings of the pgfmanual may be able to provide you with something that can be used more easily. I can't. I added something that does something that looks like white-green-red, and added a description how one may possible adjust or improve this. That's the best I can do right now. – user121799 Jan 6 at 1:20