Polygon with numbered vertices

About this, I'd like to numerate vertices of pentagon with a cyclic tikz function (e.g. \pgfmathtruncatemacro). How is it possible? Thank you!

The code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}

\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}

\usepackage{pst-node,pst-plot}

\title{Polygon with numbered vertices}
\author{PUCK}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\begin{center}
\def\R{2} \def\N{5}
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline ={(0,0)}]
\foreach \i in {1,...,\N} { \coordinate (P-\i) at (\i*360/\N+90/\N:\R); }
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\n{\N-1}
\foreach \i in {1,...,\n}
{
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\j{\i+1}
\draw (P-\i) -- (P-\j) ;
}
\draw (P-\N) -- (P-1) ;
\draw (0,0) node {\Huge{$P_n$}} ;
\draw (0,0) circle (2cm) ;
\draw[->] (-2.5,0) -- (3.5,0) coordinate (x axis);
\draw (2.75,0) circle (0pt) node[anchor=north] {asse $x$};
\draw[->] (0,-2.5) -- (0,2.5) coordinate (y axis);
\draw (0,2.4) circle (0pt) node[anchor=north west] {asse $y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}

\end{document}


Simplest way I can think off is to declare another coordianate for the (P-\i') at which to place the label, where we tweak the label for point 2:

\foreach \i in {0,...,\N} {
\coordinate (P-\i) at (\i*360/\N+90/\N:\R);
\ifnum\i=1
\def\LabeAngle{105}
\fi
\coordinate (P-\i') at (\i*360/\N+\LabeAngle/\N:1.1*\R);
}


and then place the label via

\coordinate (P-\i') at (\i*360/\N+\LabeAngle/\N:1.1*\R)


A better solution is to use the regular polygon from the shapes.geometric:

\node [
regular polygon,
regular polygon sides=5,
minimum size=2*\R cm,
draw=black, fill=gray!25, thick
]
at (0,0) {};


This is the code below, with the commented portions representing the first version.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}

\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}

\usepackage{pst-node,pst-plot}

\title{Polygon with numbered vertices}
\author{PUCK}
\date{\today}
\pagecolor{white}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\begin{center}
\def\R{2} \def\N{5}
\def\LabeAngle{90}
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline ={(0,0)}]
\foreach \i in {0,...,\N} {
\coordinate (P-\i) at (\i*360/\N+90/\N:\R);
\ifnum\i=1
\def\LabeAngle{105}
\fi
\coordinate (P-\i') at (\i*360/\N+\LabeAngle/\N:1.1*\R);
}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\n{\N-1}
\node [regular polygon, regular polygon sides=5, minimum size=2*\R cm, draw=black, fill=gray!25, thick] at (0,0) {};
\foreach \i in {0,...,\n}
{
%\pgfmathtruncatemacro\j{\i+1}
%\draw (P-\i) -- (P-\j) ;
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\NodeLabel{1+\i}
\node at  (P-\i') {$\NodeLabel$};
}
%\draw (P-\N) -- (P-1) ;
\draw (0,0) node {\Huge{$P_n$}} ;
\draw (0,0) circle (2cm) ;
\draw[->] (-2.5,0) -- (3.5,0) coordinate (x axis);
\draw (2.75,0) circle (0pt) node[anchor=north] {asse $x$};
\draw[->] (0,-2.5) -- (0,2.5) coordinate (y axis);
\draw (0,2.4) circle (0pt) node[anchor=north west] {asse $y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}

• Thank you very much!!! If I wanted to color the pentagon gray what can I do? (Or do I need to create a new post?)
– Puck
Oct 20 at 17:15
• In that case I would recommend using the regular polygon from the shapes.geometric library. Have updated solution. Oct 20 at 17:28
• Thank you very very much
– Puck
Oct 20 at 22:39

For comparison, here is a way of doing that in Metapost.

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{luamplib}
\begin{document}
\mplibtextextlabel{enable}
\begin{mplibcode}
input colorbrewer-rgb
numeric r; r = 42;
path xx, yy, C;
xx = (left--right) scaled 3/2 r;
yy = xx rotated 90;
C = fullcircle scaled 2r;
ahangle := 25;
beginfig(1);
for n=3 upto 8:
path poly; poly = for i=0 upto n-1: r * up rotated (360/n*(i-1)) -- endfor cycle;
picture P; P = image(
fill poly withcolor PastelOne[9][n];
drawarrow xx withcolor 3/4;
drawarrow yy withcolor 3/4;
draw C withcolor 3/4;
draw poly;
label("$P_{" & decimal n & "}$", origin);
% this scaling trick works because the poly is centered at (0,0)
for i=1 upto n:
label("$" & decimal i & "$", point i of poly scaled (1+6/r));
endfor
);
draw P shifted ((n mod 3, -floor(n/3)) scaled 3.5r);
endfor
endfig;
\end{mplibcode}
\end{document}


You need to compile this with lualatex so that the luamplib wrapper works.

• Very nice truly. I like very much. Oct 22 at 21:06
• I very like this!! Thank you very much!!
– Puck
Oct 23 at 12:43