Questions tagged [intersections]
For questions about calculating intersections using {tikz-pgf} or {pgfplots}, including PGF's `intersections` library.
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Use named paths inside a scope for intersections outside the scope?
I need to:
draw an ellipse,
name it so I can intersect it later,
clip it.
To accomplish 3, it seems most appropriate to use a scope, but this means that I cannot accomplish 2. Consider this MWE:
\...
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Clipping an horizontal line in a bell shaped curve
In this figure there are two horizontal lines which I have tried to adjust to the ends of these lines to the bell shaped data curves,
\documentclass[border=0.5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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Naming line intersection and using it later
I have drawn tangents to my ellipse, and I would like to find the intersections of those tangents and connect them into a line. I know how to make that line, but I don't know how to get those ...
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dash path between two intersections with other path
I wish to dash the red path when it is between the intersections with the blue path. How can I do this using paths names?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\...
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Create intersect for Venn diagram and resize circles to adjust to box size
Problem:
Two minor issues which I have not been able to solve.
How do I fill the intersection for the second figure (on the right)?
How do I create "padding" or more "air" around the circles in each ...
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1answer
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Create dashed intersections with labels using pgfplots and tikz
Problem:
I have several minor issues that I can not seem to be able to solve.
Add and position labels to x/y-axis
Add dashed intersections
Show x/y-axis numbers for -1 and 1
Minimal Working Example ...
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1answer
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How to add horizontal, then vertical shorts in circuitikz
I've noticed that in circuitikz, while the regular tikz lines of horizontal-then-vertical (-|) and vertical-then-horizontal (|-) lines work fine when joining two items with different absolute ...
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Sequence of TiKz intersection points [duplicate]
To get intersection points of help lines and a line, I wrote the following code.
\documentclass[margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,intersections}
\begin{document}
...
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1answer
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tikz can not find the intersection [duplicate]
Hello I do not understand why tikz can not find the intersection of the curve and the right?
thank you
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,intersections}
[!...
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How to draw with Tikz a chord parallel to AC that passes through a point?
I've drawn the following diagram with Tikz:
The code used:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgf,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{babel,calc,arrows,shapes.geometric,intersections,through,backgrounds}
\...
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Labeling distinct points of a line and circle using “intersections package”
The following code renders five circles, each circle intersecting one or two other circles, and a line segment PQ. Line segment PQ intersects each circle twice. How do I label the intersection of the ...
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1answer
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Automatically draw nodes at all intersections (for graph crossings)
I use TikZ to draw (undirected) graphs, but sometimes I would like to be able to mark where all the intersections/crossings are automatically. I understand that the TikZ intersections library has the ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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0answers
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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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3answers
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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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vote
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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votes
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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vote
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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vote
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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votes
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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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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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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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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vote
1answer
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No shape named … is known
For this error I can not find a correct answer
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% and we'...
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1answer
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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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votes
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{...
