Questions tagged [tikz-fadings]
{tikz-fadings} is for questions about the fadings library for TikZ which allows for “shading-like” transparency.
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Why does setting a tikzfading style from within a tikzpicture increase the boundary box?
I am using tikz with the tikz library "fadings". I am drawing a tikzpicture that involves looping through a sequence, and performing an action for each term of the sequence. One such action ...
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Relative Fade Direction with Tikz Fading
I have a custom function that creates a tikzpicture that has been rotated via
\begin{tikzpicture}[rotate=angle]
...
\end{tikzpicture}
where "angle" is an argument to the function so that ...
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Difficulty with passing the value of a tl to the tikzfading function
In the LaTeX tikz library "fadings", there is a function called \tikzfading that allows one to define a custom fading style. For instance, the following is an MWE showing a line fading out ...
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Data outside canvas not removed when using fadings with pgfplots
I have a weird problem and was able to track it down to the use of fadings in my plot. My workflow uses pgfplots for plotting my data and after compilation I use gs to convert the pdf file with some ...
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Line in Tikz environment showing thicker and giving "Dimension too large" error when using path fading
I am trying to draw a neural network with a gradient with Tikz. I have the code without errors for the normal neural network, but when I add path fading for the gradient a couple things go wrong. ...
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Fade out of plot without affecting the grid
I'm trying to achieve a fade-out effect of my plot curve to the sides without affecting the grid. However, as I'm using path fading with white, the grid is also affected. Ideally this would be done by ...
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TikZ - Combining fading and fill opacity
I am trying to have a transparent fill as well as set the total transparency of the shape. The bottom example should be a combination of the two above. How can I manipulate the transparency value of ...
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TikZ: Fading boxes in absolute coordinates
I'm trying to draw a curved line, and then apply some custom fading to it by using \pgfdeclarefading and \pgfsetfading following https://tikz.dev/base-transparency#pgf.back/pgfsetfading. However, the ...
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Transparency, not opacity, is needed as fading for plotting a surface over a lattice
I can, to some extent, define a new color map for a 3d-surface and import some tikz picture as a node inside the 3d-plot. I want to put the 3d-surface over the inserted node object where one of the ...
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tikzfadingfrompicture with fit fading=false (Potential bug)
In the manual page 361 this is written about fit fading:
/tikz/fit fading=⟨boolean⟩ (default true, initially true)
When set to
true, the fading is shifted and resized (in exactly the same way as a
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Producing a Glowing Star with the Transparent Package and Pdflatex
Consider the code:
\documentclass{book}
\textheight 8.5in \textwidth 5.75in
\usepackage{xcolor}
%\usepackage{transparent}
\definecolor{darkpurple}{RGB}{48, 25, 52}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Undesired line between "fill between" regions
i´m trying to make this plot:
As you can see, I am having trouble on the right side. I want to make the colored regions disappear softly to the right. To make that I defined, for each color, two ...
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How to fading transparent with tikz package
I want to fill small rectangle in below cover.
My code is not fading color to background color.
Please help me correct below code.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=0pt,...
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How to Produce a Rectangular Radial Glow
Consider the code
\documentclass[a5paper,12pt,onecolumn,openany,final]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0.7in,vmargin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}
\...
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Embedding a Pspicture within a Radial Fading Tikzpicture
The following MWE is taking some code from How to Produce a Colorized Aura About an Image and Which Resembles That Image which produces a "radiant" Norman Window.
Consider,
\documentclass[...
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Followup to Restricting the Circular Span of a Radial Tikzpicture
This post is an extension of the post How to Restrict the Circular Span of a Radial Fading Tikzpicture
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
% Code can be compiled with Pdflatex or Xelatex
\...
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Centering an Image within a Tikzpicture that is Embedded in a Pspicture
I am trying to place an image (in this case, a red square) at the center of a radial glow (generated as a tikzpicture) all within a pspicture environment.
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\...
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How to Restrict the Circular Span of a Radial Fading Tikzpicture
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
% Code can be compiled with Pdflatex or Xelatex
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}
\definecolor{darkamber}{RGB}{213,54,0}
\definecolor{sunriseyellow}{...
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Extending the Features of the Glowing Star Posted by User Sandy G
This following code extends a bit, an answer posted by the user Sandy G in How to Give Stars a Glow Effect which asked for a way to produce a glowing star with LaTeX.
\documentclass{book}
\textheight ...
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An Efficient Method for Drawing a Constellation of Glowing Stars
As an application of the question posed in How to Give Stars a Glow Effect
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\textheight 8.5in \textwidth 5.75in
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings, calc}
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TikZ - Complete and progressive horizontal fading possible?
I'd like to fade some text, on its left and its right.
I want the fading to be visually both :
progressive
complete (ie: when the fading ends, the text becomes invisible)
I didn't find any example ...
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Precompiled preamble + TikZ fadings library
It seems that the fadings library is not compatible with precompiled preambles.
MWE:
%&mwe
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}% Incompatible with precompiled ...
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pdfmanagement-testphase tikz babel and dvips
This code don't work with compilation in dvi->ps->pdf
\RequirePackage{pdfmanagement-testphase} % load the package
\DocumentMetadata{} % activate the PDF management (with options)
\documentclass{...
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How to fade light rays by tikz
I would like to draw the light rays as below picture.
The below MWE is not beautifull.
Please help me correct it.
Thank you in advance!
\documentclass[tikz,border=2mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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How to fading color the curve grid
I want to draw the curve grid as bellow picture.
Please help me control the grid with the belly and fade the color.
MWE
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\...
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Shading a heart
I want to draw and fill the below heart with TikZ package.
I use the shading option for the whole heart or two semi-heart curve.
It seem the heart divided!
Please help me correct the suitable shading ...
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Proper use of TikZ fading to cut text from a box with rounded corners
Following up from this post, I am trying to build an illustration to look like this:
It's important that the transparent text is indeed transparent, not white.
When I compile the following MWE
\...
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