Questions tagged [intersections]
For questions about calculating intersections using {tikz-pgf} or {pgfplots}, including PGF's `intersections` library.
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Intersection between tangent and circle
I am trying to define the tangent line of a circle at a given azimuth then use this intersection to define segment. The MWE here shows that intersection seems badly computed using [turn]90: command to ...
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Intersection coordinates change when I change values for domain
I'm trying to plot a function using Tikz/Pgfplots. Am still new to using Tikz/Pgfplots. I've created the code using various sources. Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots,tikz}...
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Fill between 4 circle and arc
I need to fill a zone defined by 4 arcs for which I know there centers and radius.
I didn't manage to create the contour of this area and fill it.
Here is my MWE with circle but the size of the ...
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Recreating overlapping circles with text in tikz
I'm trying to create this image in tikz.
I've created the basic structure but cant handle the intersections of the circles with each other. I'm sure the intersections library needs to be used. I ...
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TikZ, fill the space between two paths
I would like to fill the space between the central semi-circumference and the solid black lines above.
\documentclass[tikz,border=1.5cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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TikZ, draw along a path
I have two semi-circumferences with an intersection point defined as E. I want to use different line style/color along them.
For this purpose, first I used path to define the semi-circumferences. Now ...
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Tikz, anchor point and intersection
I'm using the following LaTeX code for Tikz:
\begin{tikzpicture}[ noeud/.style={draw, circle},
triangle/.style={isosceles triangle, anchor=apex,
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Can I make the intersection between the vertical through an `xshift`ed or `yshift`ed node and another node?
From here
In general, the meaning of (⟨p⟩ |- ⟨q⟩) is “the intersection of a vertical line through p and a horizontal line through q”.
so (p |- q) makes perfectly sense in a \path or whatever.
At the ...
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Repetitive perpendiculars in a right angle triangle
I am trying to draw perpendicular from O in right angled triangle (OAB) to the hypotenuse. From the foot of perpendicular (say X0) of it, two perpendiculars are drawn to rectangular axis with foot of ...
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TiKz-pgf: Project intersection points in the abscissa axis
With some effort, I was able to find a way to mark the intersection points between the Gaussian bell and the straight line.
Leaving aside the first point, I would need to project the two intersection ...
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Dimension too large for a simple 3D picture
I created this simple 3D box. Everything looks as expected, but I keep getting error
Dimension too large.
Is there any way to avoid it?
MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Feed intersection's coordinates to pgfplots' \addplot
Following examples in the manual and elsewhere, I can use Tikz to mark an intersection on a pgfplots axis and even display the coordinates (see the commented out section in the MWE below), but I would ...
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Shorter way of obtaining curved angle with intersections
Consider the following (inspired by this post):
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\coordinate (a) at (0,0);
\coordinate (b) at (...
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How to draw a cartesian plane like this?
I read some topics but I still don't know how to draw this cartesian plane, someone could help? My difficulty is how to draw the intersection.
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Drawing intersection over union in equation
I'm new to LaTeX and I try to use tikz library to draw intersection over union in an equation like in the following image, but sadly I couldn't find any solution for it.
The current state of my code:
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Draw vertical line to arbitrary path or a function by giving x coordinate (pgfplots)
This is a follow-up question to this one. My goal is to draw a vertical line to any path or a function, but the main requirement is to avoid temporal paths that are used to get the intersection.
Here ...
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Use explicit path in intersection inside axis (pgfplots)
I'm trying to achieve the following:
I know I can do that with help of intersections tikz library. However, the main requirement is to avoid any temporary paths (\path[name path=t] (2,0) -- (2,\ymaxv)...
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Filling Grid Points Intersected by a Circle
I'm trying to make the image below. I want to fill in the grid points intersected by the circles. I'm able to make the grid and the arrows, the code for that is below. I'm completely lost on how to ...
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Simple question about drawing the real line using tikz
I have never drawn anything of LateX before, and I would like to represent intervals of the form [x,x'], with both x,x' real numbers, as I show below. I have 0 experience with tikz and altough I've ...
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Using tikz spath3 with *nodes*
I can use spath3 with paths (not nodes) in this way:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{spath3, intersections}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[spath/save = rect, ...
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decorate or style path between nodes
I'm trying to draw two “blobs”, and a curve from one blob to the other, which is colored differently between the blobs. Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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TikZ single intersection between curve and horizontal line not found
What happened
The error
! Package pgf Error: No shape named `intersection-1' is known.
is produced when compiling the following with pdfLaTeX:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How do I get this node correctly vertically and horizontally aligned, no deviation horizontally from node above?
I am trying to get the node \node[below = 3 cm of OPC] (NCM) {No match}; aligned so it is directly below the node above, and exactly on the same line as the node to the right. If I do a simple below ...
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intersection of arc and line
I want to find intersection of arc and line. But I have an error "I do not know the path name 'curc' ''
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1, font=\footnotesize, line join=round, line cap=round, >=...
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Filling the intersection of paths
I am aware that there is myriad of posts dealing with the intersection of objects in tikz, but I haven't found one that shows how to intersect two paths, so far. I would like to either shade or hatch ...
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Crossing over method with xy package for one or more arrows
Related on this question, considering the original image,
adding my MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[all]{xy}
\begin{document}
\xymatrix@R=2pc@C=2.8pc{
& b' \ar@{~>}[ddl]|...
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Dimensions too large in pgfplots graph
I exported some code from GeoGebra but I get the error "dimensions are too large." I have narrowed the error down to these two lines
\draw [samples=50,domain=-0.99:0.99,rotate around={0.:(0.,...
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TikZ package: coordinate from intersection of arc and line
I've been trying to create a handful of intersections of an arc and lines.
Here's my code:
\coordinate (A) at (0, 5);
\coordinate[label=below:$M$] (B) at (0, 0);
\coordinate (C) at (5, 0);
\path[name=...
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Simple plot with TIkZ
I was wondering whether someone knows how to do the graph on the right. I just know how to do very simple graphs.
Is there a way to put shaded balls and graphs in the same figure?
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Drawing a function between two intersections with two other functions
I have three functions defined, red, blue and green. I would like to plot the red function only between the intersections with blue and green function. What is the easiest way to do that?
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Intersection between several lines and a curve using Tikz
I have tried to calculate the intersection, and add a red dot, between a curve called "mincut" and a line called "arc-67".
It doesn't work and gives an error like this: ! Package ...
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Dimension too large for a simple tex drawing
I have relatively simple 3D drawing. It compiles fine, but I get five "Dimension too large" errors. How can I avoid it?
\documentclass[10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Why are my TikZ intersections not exact?
In a TikZ picture, I try to intersect an arc with a cubic bezier line. However, the calculated intersection points seem off — do you know why that is? Is this some sort of rounding error?
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problems with foreach loop and intersections
I have a problem using foreach loop and intersection.
My MWE looks like this:
\documentclass[border=5pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\...
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Extracting a subpath from intersection
I am wondering if intersections can be used to extract a subpath from a circle/ellipse path. I have two ellipses, and I am trying to plot only the perimeter of the union. Considering the following ...
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TikZ not detecting third intersection of curves
I want to find the intersections of a graph in a certain y-value in order to create a hybrid path between the curves. However, for some reason, TikZ is not detecting the third intersection.
Here is ...
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Find several intersections between line and curve using tikz
I want to find the intersections between the orange dashed line and the blue curve using the package tikz, see the screenshot below. As can be seen, only the first intersection is shown. However, I ...
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{genealogytree} How to draw multiple marriage without edge intersections
Could anybody give me a hint on how to draw the following situation (3 marriages) with no edge-intersection?
The example is taken from the manual, p. 233.
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Detect segment intersections with tikz
I have to detect when two segments intersect in a parametric figure that need's to computes coordinates into a tikz picture, and it won't works, seem's that "intersections=... total=\t" or &...
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how to draw n horizontal y-axis parallel lines intersect m vertical x-axis parallel lines
use \foreach command add node circle
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5]
\draw[->] (-10, 0) -- (10, 0) node[right] {$x$};
\draw[->] (0, -10) -- (0, 10) node[above] {$y$};
{
\foreach \n in {8,7,...
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How to fill area between several paths
I have the folling tikz code, where several paths intersect each other. I struggle to find a way to fill the six different regions of the resulting picture, each with a different pattern (not ...
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TikZ, refer to intersection with x-axis
In this code:
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,babel,calc,intersections,backgrounds}
\usepgfplotslibrary{fillbetween}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Why doesn't a code from an answer compile?
There was a good answer about naming angles here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/55555/227339
I try to run it on my computer, but I get these errors:
As I understood, the problem is that name path=...
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Tikz trim lines at intersection
I'm trying to come up with a way to draw "parametric" right triangles, meaning that I change the length of the hypotenuse \hypo and one of the internal angles \alfa and it should draw the ...
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TikZ intersection command with strange behavior
I am trying to put some nodes at the intersection of a circle with some bissectors. However, the intersections are not behaving how I supposed they should.
The text wrong should be placed at the ...
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Is there a clever way of drawing/marking intersections of multiple paths in block diagrams automatically?
I'm trying to draw a block diagram with tikz and would like to match some kind of convention concerning the intersection of lines/paths. The convention says, that the marking/semicircle has to be at ...
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PGFPlots intersection segments wrong curve and endpoint
When trying to answer How to delete a part of a curve in Tikz? , I ran into problems with intersection segments from PGFPlots fillbetween.
I tried to change the curve from to[out=280,in=175] to ...
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3d intersections
As exercise, I'm trying to draw the intersection of the prism [0,2] x [0,4] x [0,6], and the plane x + y + z = 5.
My result is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=...
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Plane intersecting sphere with tikz and tikz-3d
I'm really surprised that I couldn't find an answer to this question, but here it goes: how can I draw a plane intersecting a sphere using tikz and tikz-3dplots?
I managed to do the following, using a ...
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Filling area between 2 Plots made by coordinates with transparent
I am trying to fill the area between 2 plots with lil bit transparency. Actually i got with fill between this figure:
How can I only fill the difference between the two plots. Make the actual orange ...
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