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45 questions linked to/from Simulating hand-drawn lines
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Scribbled out crossed out text
How would one be able to reproduce the scribbling of text in LaTeX?
Something like this superimposed on text:
Ideally:
latex code:
% using the four scribble patterns (top to bottom)
\bigscribble{Can}...
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Handwritten comments and annotations in margin
Is it possible to typeset handwritten comments and annotations in the margins around a paragraph like in the example below?
What would be the closest approximation of this done in LaTeX?
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Create xkcd style diagram in TeX
The unique style of the diagrams at xkcd has an informative but nice hand-drawn touch. I guess they are actually drawn by hand but just recently on our partner site for Mathematica someone asked how ...
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Simulating paintbrush strokes in TikZ
I am wondering if there exists a way to simulate paintbrush strokes in TikZ when filling in a shape. So given the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Combine tikz curve with random variation
I would like to combine a curve defined with \draw with a random variation along the path.
So far I have found quite some interesting discussions on tex.SE like How to draw Brownian motions in tikz/...
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draw a technical instrument geophone
Could you help to draw the geophone?
\documentclass[border=5mm,tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing,patterns}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfmathsetmacro{\...
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Is it possible to draw a 3d plot as line art with tikz?
Is it possible to draw a 3d plot as line art with tikz? For example, Is it possible to draw z=x*exp(-x^2-y^2) with smooth line art style? Something like the following figure for z=x^3-3x*y^2.
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Add annotation on beamer slide, simulating hand-drawing?
I would like to add on my beamer slides something that simulate as if I had been drawing a comment by hand. This would circle, come on top of text or formulas, and allows to insert text. Ideally, I ...
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Superposition of random smooth waves to user defined smooth path
I need to complete a simple task of adding some random smooth perturbations to a generally specified smooth path in Tikz, as specified by the plot together with some user defined coordinates as shown ...
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Creating symbols in TikZ that mimic the characters in the fonts *Ultima Underworld II* and *Dungeon Master* [closed]
I want to create some symbols in TikZ.
The symbols should mimic the character set of two very specific fonts.
The fonts are called Ultima Underworld II and Dungeon Master.
I attached some pictures ...
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crossing out whole slide with LaTeX beamer
Is there a way to draw a huge red cross (x) on top of a slide in LaTeX beamer? I want to discuss a position and then say that it is definitely wrong and mark this by crossing out the whole page. It ...
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Distorting tikz picture to look like it's a picture from a book?
Can a tikzpicture be distorted to look like it's a picture from a book in an easy way (not exporting to pdf, printing, taking picture and using said picture)?
something like:
\tikz[distorted=jpg] \...
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Advice on LaTeX2e diagram (possibly using TikZ?)
How could I make this diagram? I thought I could use TikZ...
It would be all right for me to make this in TikZ, with some effort. The only problem is that I don't know what I should do with the CU ...