Questions tagged [shapes]
This tag is about shapes, geometric or otherwise, that can be drawn directly with LaTeX commands or with a related package.
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Drawing a filled shape in front of a line with even odd rule?
What I am trying to do is to draw a filled shape in "front" off a vertical line, to give the effect that the line is "behind" the shape. I think it involves the even odd rule but I ...
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Generating a specific graphic with TikZ
I am wondering how to generate a specific image with TikZ. This image is essentially a lattice grid without the grid, with a triangle, rectangle, and other shapes overlayed in a particular way. I ...
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How to Crop an Image Precisely in the Shape of a Norman Window
A Norman Window looks like a semicircle atop a rectangle; for example,
If would like to be able to take an existing rectangular image and crop it so that what is cut out resembles the perimeter of a ...
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Making an Image into a Lettrine
In the MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}
\setlength{\textwidth}{12cm}
%\renewcommand{\LettrineTextFont}{\normalfont}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\...
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Why does using two styles in the same node in tikzpicture lead to an error?
The context
I know how to display a cross inside a rectangle (see minimal working example and image below)
\documentclass[border = 2]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc, fit}
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Crop ellipse to fit in between other shapes in Tikz
Assuming I have two shapes and I want to add a circular shape (like an ellipse). How can I crop this ellipse so that it fits in between the other shapes like sketched below? I don't want to add white ...
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How to draw a closed path outward or inward, centering the line
When I have multiple shapes that are close to each other the picture is too busy to be considered "readable".
I would like to shift the media point of the line outward or inward as I need, ...
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How to draw a five-pointed star with labels?
I would like to draw a five-pointed star with different labels at each point of the star. I reached the example below, which closely follows this question, but I could not replace the numbers with ...
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Superellipse filled with a color
I would like to create a superellipse shape. I found the following question "How do I make a superellipse node shape in tikz?" with @Jake's answer that does indeed produce a superellipse. ...
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How to properly annotate lengths for a polygon(trapezium). How to calculate the perpendicular height?
I would like to know how to annotate a trapezoid. I think I have the widths okay but I'm having trouble calculating the height. I have adapted the code from answer to this post Once I have the ...
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Triangular Node has Unexpected Inner Space
I was expecting a much tighter triangle around the text in this example, similar to the inner spacing around the text in the rectangle nodes. How would I tighten up the inner spacing?
\documentclass[...
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I can't take my shape one step further. how can I draw more
I can't keep repeating the shape in the corners. I can't issue a command like corner of the corner. I want it to continue in a loop like fractal but I couldn't make the loop. With the command I wrote, ...
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How to use "sloped" when the x and y scales are different?
In the example below, I want to align the text to the right of the tangent, as the scales are different, the tilt is wrong. I tried to use "transform shape" by the text becomes unreadable (...
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How to shade overlaps of multiple circles?
I am trying to create in tikz an image like this illustration of the winset of the Q in two-dimensional space (drawn in Inkscape).
The code below draws the circles as nodes, since that seems to be ...
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Drawing rotated triangles inside triangles
How do I draw rotated triangles inside a triangle as shown above? I already know how to draw one triangle; But I'm not able to draw this specific figure. I found a similar example from https://...
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non rectangular body geometry with xintools failed when verse used
I use the solution suggested in “Non-rectangular body geometry” by the (deleted) user @user4686 but the render failed when it reached a verse environment in the body:
The MWE
As I need the non-...
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How to add colour shape to header on external pdf file with Latex?
I am working on a scanned PDF document to add a rectangular shape on the header to hide header text on all pages of the entire document. To incorporate the external PDF's I use the pdfpages package. ...
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Attaching a small rhombus with a circular bullet at its bottom
I wanna attach (means by adding a second arrow) a small rhombus with a circular bullet at its bottom to the following drawing:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
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Please give the latex code for this diagram, with the shaded region as shown
I have could draw the diagram except the shaded region and the marks showing that OP and OP' are equal. Please help me out!!
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TikZ node changes size based on text length even after setting minimum width and height
I have a trapezium node in TikZ that I would like to maintain consistent dimensions no matter how many times it is called in the \tikzpicture.
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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To get an arrow white inside and black border [duplicate]
I need your support to draw an arrow like this in Tikz. White inside, black border.
I’d like to insert it between two nodes and change the length, width and head extend. Accordingly with the distance.
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How can I draw a right triangle in LaTeX?
Let's say I would like to make the following figure.
However, I would like to see if I can make this figure in LaTex so that it looks much cleaner and nicer like this. What are the commands used to ...
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Vertical space of shaded box
I use package framed to color background of part of the text. I put attention that shaded environment uses extra space before and after colored box. In search how to reduce this space, I found macro
\...
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Draw an arrow over and across tables and images with minimal LateX coding
Can someone reproduce the following in LateX:
I have looked extensively at various packages and techniques but none seem quite able to reproduce the desired behavior. I essentially wish to draw an ...
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How to draw shapes around text in TikZ?
Please look at the following figure. The right arrow consists of an &. I want to highlight only that & by drawing a circle or square or other shapes around it. The shape will be filled with ...
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Tikz node with multiparts coloring but single part text
I want to create a tikz node with two colors (split along a vertical axis) and a single body of text spanning the two parts.
The way I've seen the shapes.multipart library used makes the being ...
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Filling out the space between two circles with dashed lines in order to create a torus like shape
\documentclass[fleqn]{book}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{nord0}{HTML}{2E3440}
\definecolor{nord4}{HTML}{D8DEE9}
\definecolor{nord5}{HTML}{E5E9F0}
\...
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How to make text margins follow a specific shape? [duplicate]
How can text be formatted as in this example from Alice in Wonderland, where the margins for the text seems to follow a specific shape (if that's what's actually happening..sorry if I'm clueless here),...
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Parameterized pgf shape with optional dashed lines
Based on similar questions I found on SE, I have finally managed to create a relatively simple ‘folded document’ shape in tikz with a few horizontal lines inside:
\documentclass[tikz,border=1mm]{...
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Rounded corner in xy package and ellipse shape
This question very hard for me. xy package have also the shapes, circle with [o], or other forms using this table:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[all]{xy}
\begin{...
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How can I modify the SVG's viewBox while using dvisvgm
I have been converting tex files into svg:
lualatex --output-format=dvi flowchart.tex
dvisvgm flowchart.dvi
but the SVG's attributes always holds a view box with min-x, min-y value of
viewBox='-72....
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Tikz shape library not working on input files
Somehow, I can use the shapes tikzlibrary only on the current file, with it not working on files loaded via \input. Essentially, if I write a file with:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\...
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Vertical alignment of tikz in minipage
The tikz picture should be top aligned with the minipage text.
MWE:
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.symbols}
\usepackage[left=27.5mm, right=30mm, top=25mm, bottom=...
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shape border rotate has no effect on "tape" shape
I try to rotate the shape "tape" with no effect. Please take a look at the following MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
...
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Shape and arrows
I want to have the following design in Latex. Could you please help me how to draw it? 3 D format would be great. Many thanks!
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Chevron arrow shape in tikz
What is the best way to draw this in TIKZ?
I was thinking I could define a custom shape with this "arrow" form, but did not really figure out how to achieve this. Maybe there are better solutions?
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Tikz: Rectangle Split Inner Separations
Using tikz and tikzshapes, two split rectangles are created. Is it possible to have different inner separations for each part?
MWE:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
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How can I draw these cones properly without the base exceeding the lines?
I want to draw a 3D shape as shown in the image, but I cannot seem to get the circle/ellipse base of the cones to fit within the lines. The sides should be a tangent to the bottom circle/ellipse. The ...
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How to deform a shape along a path using TikZ?
I know that it is possible to write a text along a path.
I want to know is it possible to draw a shape along a path?
I know that this is impossible in most cases. but I think we can draw such ...
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How do I create vertical rectangles that are adjacent to each other with spaces in between?
I am working on a probability homework assignment for my discrete math class. One of the questions involves calculating the probability of drawing 7 cards and having exactly one land card and 6 non-...
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How to prevent collisions in custom shapes with header and footer using `tikzpicture` and `fancyhdr`?
This is a combination of two previous questions (with their respective answers):How to create a command for the sections with an svg next to it on the top of the page? and How to make a conversation ...
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Analog Computer Symbols
I am trying to draw analog computer symbols (I will put a picture of the entire list later). Right now, I am trying to draw a symbol of an analog integrator. Here's what I have right now in code:
\...
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How to make a defined \tikzset label centered above?
I managed to get some code from another question on this forum (I forgot where, but here is the code):
\tikzstyle{block} = [draw, rectangle,
minimum height=3em, minimum width=3em]
\tikzstyle{...
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Drawing figures instead of insert [closed]
Figures are great for presentation slides. I would like to add a figure to my slides, but wouldn't be nice to import an already designed image. I would like to instead draw from within latex, this way ...
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Structure of the block diagram, input and output
I put too much information in my block diagram and now the input and output don't look right.
Is there a way to put larger arrows? and also I would like to know if X(s) and Y(s) can be a little bit ...
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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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How to have declared pgf shape with different line thickness for one part in it?
How do I change line thickness for one part of a declared shape? I want it to have half thickness of the other lines. I tried adding the line \pgfsetlinewidth{0.5\pgflinewidth} before that part with ...
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How can I get latex to make a reuleaux triangle, and can I generalize that to other reuleaux polygons?
I'm trying to get a reuleaux triangle, the interior triangle, the radius, and its midpoint. I don't know how to get all of that into the same diagram
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Is there a way to draw a simple circle or square in plain TeX/LaTeX, without relying on graphics packages?
I need to draw some bullets for a custom list, but what I have now is pgf code. I figured, why load entire pgf package to draw a mere circle (or square) when there must be (don't tell me otherwise, it'...
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Recreating this image using Tikz with flattened circle
I am trying to recreate this image:
I'm however struggling with the flattened circle shape in the centre as well as getting the curved lines for focusing. My current attempt has allowed me to get ...
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