Questions tagged [intersections]
For questions about calculating intersections using {tikz-pgf} or {pgfplots}, including PGF's `intersections` library.
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Finding the intersection of two circles
I am attempting to use pair[] intersectionpoints to find and label the intersection points of the circles defined by path h and path g. Thanks for the help.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{...
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Colouring of intersection of four circles with TikZ
I want to selectively fill intersection of four circles as shown below.
I was able to make some of the intersections correctly but not able to figure out how to make the remaining ones.
Here is the ...
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The Area of a Region Bounded by Two Graphs
I am looking for a more professional program from that here below.
I believe I can name the curves and have TiKz calculate the points of intersections instead of finding them with a pen and paper. I ...
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What is the meaning of option 'by' in TikZ Intersections
Pg 65 of the PGF Manual, shows different operations with the intersections library in TikZ. But I am not able to understand the code. What is the meaning of the option by here.
The explanation given ...
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Named paths inside a tikz/pic
I am trying to understand the naming behavior of paths inside a pic definition. Consider the following
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\tikzset{%
...
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Draw tangent of an arbitrary curve at intersections
I have this picture:
and I want to draw a tangent line at each of the marked intersections. I have found some answers (and examples in the TikZ manual) using the decorations.markings library. The ...
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How to fill a solid defined by x^2+y^2<=9, z<=16-x^2-y^2 and z>=0 using PGFPlots
I would like to draw the body D defined by x^2+y^2<=9, z<=16-x^2-y^2 and z>=0.
We have to graph x^2+y^2=9, z=16-x^2-y^2 and z=0 with less opacity, and then fill (or use patterns) the ...
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Using functions like sine, cosine and tangent to calculate coordinates in Tikz
I am learning TikZ with the pgfmanual. The example given is as follows:
I have achieved the following so far:
The code is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{help lines/....
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1answer
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Intersection library and Differential approximations
Hi everyone I am looking for a smoother program using the intersection library to calculate where the tangent line intersects the vertical line of the x-coordinate of the second coordinate. I have so ...
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How to create a vertex at the intersection of two edges with tkz-graph?
I want to draw
But I don't know how to create v_6 which is the intersection of \Edge(v_3)(v_5) & \Edge(v_1)(v_4) and v_7 is the intersection of \Edge(v_3)(v_5) & \Edge(v_2)(v_4).
Here the ...
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Trouble with the intersection of 3 planes
I am trying to make a 3d plots as follows. This is my MWE:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xlabel=$x$, ylabel=$y$, zlabel={$z$},legend pos=outer north east,z post scale=1.1,grid=both,view={50}...
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Intersection of a circle and a line “path”
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
plotmark/.style = {%
solid, fill = red, circle, inner sep = 0pt, minimum size =...
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1answer
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Problem With Horizontal tangent
I am trying to figure why the tangent to the right looks slightly tilted whereas the other to the left is doing what it is suppose to do?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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1answer
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Color ellipse intersection
I try to color the interception of two ellipses as simple as possible. I found some examples here:
Draw ellipses with different coloring for their intersection in tikz?
But I'm not sure how to ...
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1answer
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filling segments by intersection method: there is no named path called
I'm just trying to fill each peripheral segment of my drawing. The names of the hexagon and the circle are test and circ. Additionally, the line pieces connecting edges of the hexagon to the outer ...
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1answer
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Tangent Lines Intersecting Curves
Why I am only getting one point of intersection read by the program? Solution is to breaking to two parts with tangent lines drawn at different lengths.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Tangent Lines Diagram Along Smooth Curve
I am trying to replicate a diagram and have a minimal example. I don't know how to add additional tangents between the specified points and preserve smoothness.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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1answer
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Finding an intersection with respect to the decoration
in
Naming nodes in a decoration and draw lines from node to node
I asked a question, which was answered. The most help was the following.
\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\...
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1answer
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Naming nodes in a decoration and draw lines from node to node
thanks for taking the time.
I have the problem, that I want to get normal vectors on a smooth plot, furthermore I have lines intersecting said plot, but they also need to end in the graph. My approach ...
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1answer
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Tikz name path problems: No shape names is known
I seem to struggle already with the simplest use case of name path in Tikz:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
...
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1answer
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Problem with intersections: No shape named intersection-1 is known
When I compile the following code I get the error Package pgf Error: No shape named intersection-1 is known. How can I fix it?
\documentclass[tikz,border=5mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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2answers
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Drawing path from intersection of two paths to origin of those two intersecting paths
I have two paths which are to be drawn with dotted lines (shown in figure) and they intersect at some point C.
Now I need to draw a resultant path of these two paths with solid lines. The resultant ...
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2answers
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Interactions between intersections, fillbetween and axis equal
Please be patient, this is a bit complex. I encountered some weird things when trying to answer this nice question. Start with the MWE
\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
%\usetikzlibrary{...
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foreach and intersection
what's wrong with my code? The usage of the foreach loop instead of the direct draw commands leads to an error that the path is not known. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks a lot in advance!
! ...
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1answer
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Tikz - Use two coordinates in single command
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,intersections,through,backgrounds,matrix,patterns}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[<->] (0,8)--(0,0)--(...
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1answer
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Tikz \path command - use second intersection
I am aiming to produce the following diagram:
Here's an MWE which almost does that:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,intersections,through,backgrounds,matrix,...
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How to fill space between dotted lines in tikz picture?
I'm trying to fill an area between two dotted lines. I tried a lot of options, but none of them seem to work.
I labeled the areas I need with the specific colors to fill. My current code is:
\...
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3answers
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Arrows at intersection in TikZ
I want to have the arrow tips on the intersection between the rectangle and the lines. Here I've got a M(N)WE:
\documentclass[border=5pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\begin{...
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0answers
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Draw feasible region between constraints (TikZ and pgf) [closed]
I'm trying to shade the feasible region ABCDE but for some reason, only get a weird line. This is the code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
% axes
\begin{axis}[axis on top,smooth,
axis line style=very thick,
...
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Visibility of path names declared in \foreach loops
Buildup
Basic setting
Using the intersection library,
I encountered some behaviour of path names
that I do not understand.
The following works in the intended way:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\...
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1answer
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PGFplots: extract coordinates, assign to global with dynamic name
I would like to loop over nodes, extract their coordinates in the axis coordinate system, and assign these to dynamically named macros. (This is a followup on this and this.)
Following this answer, I ...
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1answer
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Problem with fillbetween pgfplots library and intersections
In this MWE
\documentclass[11pt, oneside, landscape]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usetikzlibrary{
calc,
intersections,
}
\usepgfplotslibrary{fillbetween}
\...
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1answer
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No shape named … is known
For this error I can not find a correct answer
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Shading Circle Segments in a complex Venn diagram
I have a Venn diagram with some overlapping ellipses that I segmented into sections using lines.
I want to use this to make a few figures, and I am wondering wether there is a clever / clean way to ...
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1answer
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TikZ intersection not found
I ran into the following problem: Constructing a path using "plot", I fail to find intersections that fall exactly onto the coordinates used to construct that path. In the example below, the 2nd ...
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0answers
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Issue with Tikz Intersections [closed]
I am getting the error:
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size = 120].
Full MWE::
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\...
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1answer
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TikZ intersection problem with PWM signal generation
Consider the MWE of a PWM signal generation based on this question.
\documentclass[tikz, border=6mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\step}{.25}
\begin{...
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Intersection Coordinates with \pgfplotspointgetcoordinates
I am trying to extract the coordinate of an intersection point (Int1) and add it to a plot as follows:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz, pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,...
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1answer
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pgfplots: annotating some line segment outside the grid on the right or upper borders
I have the following plot for which I would rather prefer to display the marks of the 3 line segments outside the grid:
. the 1 and 3 should be to the right of the right border, close to the ...
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1answer
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How to fill the intersection among four curves?
In my problem, all curves are plot from data instead of explicit function. And what I want to do is to fill those little curved rectangles with different colors. How could I do it?
Here is the tex ...
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votes
1answer
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Draw a tangent vector to the circumference path
SX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/), I'm learning Tikz's drawing and I desire to add the tangent vector in P.
Explanation
I used the first answer to draw these radii that limit the circular path and ...
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votes
4answers
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Determining point of intersection in a triangle
I'm finding it difficult to draw the triangle as in the figure below:
I am not being able to determine the "E point".
Consequently, "A point".
The lengths do not matter, but the angles.
The DB ...
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1answer
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How to reverse an intersection segment in TikZ (not pgfplots)
In a way, this is just a reminder of an old unsolved question but arguably with some new insight or tilt. (And I do not think the actual question is a duplicate of the old one.) The fillbetween ...
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1answer
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tikz: Bug in 'intersections' library when naming paths inside loop?
I draw two circles and name their path inside a \foreach loop. Trying to name intersections of these two paths throws an error unless I name a third path.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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1answer
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Can someone help me doing 2 points of intersection?
i wanted to draw a cissoid curve using tikz. i managed to get this far:
however, i didn't manage to add visualizations of the 2 intersecting points between the big circle and the blue line and the ...
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2answers
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Tikz : Extend an inclined line
is it possible to ask tikz to extend an inclined line (not parallel to x and y) to a value xmax or ymax as is done between a horizontal and a vertical line.
i know it's feasible by having the ...
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2answers
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How does TikZ sort intersections?
I used the sort by key for intersections to sort along a line, expecting the intersections to be numbered 1 through 5. Why were they numbered 4, 5, 3, 1, 2? Playing around with it, I could not seem to ...
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2answers
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TikZ miscalculates some intersections, dimension too large
I want to draw some arcs inside a circle: they go from angle (120i+30)/2^j to (120i+90)/2^j for all i,j. I compute them with TikZ as follows:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
%\usepackage{fp}...
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Problem with interesting recipe format
I was wandering through the internet and came across http://graphicalcooking.co. An attractive format, and I said to myself, "TikZ can do that!" And so it can. I wrestled with this this morning and ...
