Questions tagged [polygon]
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How to draw a truncated triangle? TikZ or PSTricks
I would like to draw the following diagram.
How do I do it? I tried this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pst-poly}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}
\PstTriangle
...
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Overlapping concentric polygons in Beamer
I want to create an animation in Beamer for approximating the area of a circle with regular polygons. For that, I need to overlap concentric polygons. The animation will be of the overlapping part. I ...
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Asymptote code for point, segment, and some 3D prisms (Overleaf), project due this evening!
I’m very bad at Asymptote and I need to create a version of the following diagram (if this doesn’t work, see screenshot, except without that grey dot which somehow got in my screenshot):
\begin{...
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Force triangles to have same size despite different content
I have the following code that makes 4 triangles:
\documentclass[crop,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\begin{document}
\tikzstyle{triangle} =...
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How do you name nodes/vertices with this type of code?
\begin{figure}[!h]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) \foreach \i in {5}
\foreach \j in {1,...,\i}{ -- ++(360/\i*\j:2) };
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption*{Note: Figure not drawn to scale.}
\end{...
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How do I pass a curved line through a relative coordinate in a polygon using Tikz?
I haven't found an answer that quite fits my situation. I need to link two rectangles, with a curved arrow, passing through the bottom right of a third rectangle, avoiding the text.
I'm using a ...
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1answer
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Drawing a polygon of polygons
This question is vagely related to https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3449433/selecting-cards-to-form-a-fair-game?noredirect=1#comment7090962_3449433. I am trying to visually illustrate the ways ...
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Drawing complex inscribed and circumscribed polygons in TikZ
I'm creating Traveller TNE character and ship sheets for my campaign and decided I could use this as a TikZ learning opportunity. However, the heading display seems to exceed my current level of skill....
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Fill polygonal node with image and rotate it
I need to fill a triangular node with an image, and rotate it at various angles. My approach for filling the node with an image is based on this one, and it works great if my node is not rotated, or ...
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How to draw irregular hendecagon in asymptote
I am sorry if this is a duplicate question but how would I draw an irregular hendecagon using asymptote? I am new to it and I know how to draw a regular one but not an irregular one.
[asy]
size(9cm);
...
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Problem with fill color
I use the following command to create regular polygons. The 5th argument is there to insert options for styling the polygons. Though the line width is 0.3mm as I set it, it looks like the fill=red ...
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Coloring edges of a polygon differently
I would like to draw a regular 21 polygon, where the edges are labelled and have arrows in the middle using different colors. This is what I have done so far
using this code
\documentclass[...
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Arrows on edges of polygon
I would like to draw a regual 21 polygon, where the edges are labelled and have arrows in the middle. But I don't know how to get the arrows.
This is what I have done so far
\documentclass[border=5mm,...
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Colorize sides regular polygon
To illustrate what edge-coloring is, I'd like to colorize a regular polygon. I want to generate the shape using TikZ, then colorize the sides (edges) of the polygon separately, for instance by doing ...
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Position nodes relative to regular polygon anchors
I have a regular polygon, and I'd like to position nodes for instance above the first corner, or next to the nth side.
This is my sample:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Efficient way of performing geometrical operations
I have to draw a series of regular (equiangular, actually) polygons, each of which is constructed by trisecting the sides of the previous polygon and subsequently cutting off its corners.
Right now I'...
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Filling a polygon defined by `\node` command
I draw a polygon using \node in TikZ, and I want to fill the polygon.
When I use this method, it obviously fails because I do not use \coordinate to create the polygon.
Is there a way to fill a ...
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Translate some points of a polygon
I'm with a problem on this figure
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz, tkz-euclide}
\usetkzobj{all}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=4]
\tkzDefPoints{0/0/D, .2/.5/P1, .7/....
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What package(s) and commands do I need to create shapes as thought of by Jacob Barnett in LaTeX?
I watched both the "60 minutes" talk and the "numberphile" youtube video discussing how Jacob Barnett sees numbers as shapes. In both of them they mention that Barnett sees numbers as fractal-like ...
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Drawing a polygon and using a third dimension to define the color
I would like to draw a polygon, with a non-regular shape, providing coordinates x and y. I know how to do it, e.g., by using the answer provided here. However, I would like to use the third dimension, ...
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1answer
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Manipulating a polygon after few operations?
I've two polygons. The polygon have undergone some transformation like rotation and shifting. Suppose after the transformation, say as an example, how do I draw a perpendicular bisector from one of ...
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drawing a line at the intersection of polygons?
I have two intersecting polygon. Since I am filling and drawing the second polygon on top of it, the first polygon becomes hidden(at the overlapping areas). I want to show the the overlap of first ...
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Polygons one beside another
I'm trying to do two regular polygons side by side, but the second one always gets bigger then what I want. Could anyone help me?
This requires tkz-obj-polygons.tex, which a beta-version of code for ...
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How do I label vertices of polygons?
I am new to Tzik and only have basic knowledge, but I want to label the vertices of my polygon with non numeric symbols?
but I only got
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}[rotate=...
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How to draw a polygon with different line color and rounded corners?
I want to draw a polygon with different line color and rounded corners, but the corners of polygon are not rounded!
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[...
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intersection of functions or polygon tikz?
Hello I am creating a plot using tikz I have created 3 functions on a plot and took the area above each of them using drawge. My question is how I can fill the area above intersection of two functions ...
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How to draw a path to form a regular pentagon?
I already have a code that draws a regular hexagon the following way
\begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style={draw,shape=circle,fill=blue}]
\path (0,0) node (p0) {}
(-1.5,-1) node (p1) {}
(-1.5,-2.5) ...
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Filling a percentage of a regular polygon
I want to fill a polygon with a color. First of all the n-polygon should be divided in n equal parts. I've found a question similar to this:
Drawing polygons
And the solution of @Yori was almost wat ...
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polygons side by side
Could help me please, I tried to draw many polygons side by side without success!
This is what I want
My MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pgf,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
