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Drawing Super Mario Bros.....in LaTeX
As everyone knows, the game was released in 1985, and at that time LaTeX was just making it out into the world and there was no such thing as pdfTeX, let alone TikZ and other fancy systems, so what ...
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Welcoming 2019 Lunar New Year: How to draw a (lovely) pig?
The very first appearance of the tikzpig:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\definecolor{piglight}{RGB}{246,208,198}
\definecolor{pigdark}{RGB}{241,164,142}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Welcoming 2019 Lunar New Year: How to draw a (lovely) pig?
You really don't need any packages for this
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(100,100)
\put(43,56){\circle{6}}
\put(43,56){\circle*{1}}
\put(57,56){\circle{6}}
\put(57,56){\...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
The spooky blue screen of death:
\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=cyan!70!blue}
\...
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Welcoming 2019 Lunar New Year: How to draw a (lovely) pig?
For the sake of completeness, let's go for a Unicode pig!
% arara: xelatex
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\setmainfont{Symbola}
\begin{document}
\scalebox{10}...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
Here is a minimalist contribution
\phantom{}
\end
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43
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Drawing Super Mario Bros.....in LaTeX
What if Mario and Luigi are going to a party? Somebody said that they love ducks!!
From The TikZducks package
MWE
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikzducks}
\...
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Simulating hand-drawn lines
[EDIT on August 13, 2018: better and shorter code, but unfortunately a lot slower now...]
I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but here's my attempt. I tried to implement the ideas they used in ...
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December challenge: Create an Advent Calendar
You can get the latest PDF containing all pages here (about 4.5 MB).
some stats so far:
Python Latex
lines of code 150 7300
compile time 0.22s 1350s
Here's a ...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
Any Comic Sans fans here?
\documentclass[border=9,tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{shadings}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{170pt}{0}\bfseries
\...
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How to create a Gantt chart?
I think a Gantt Chart is the way to go by looking at your example, using the pgfgantt package. I don't make them as fancy as your example, but I believe you can get quite close with solely using this ...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
A drowning witch.
(with apologies to the late Roger Price)
\documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(200,200)
\thicklines
\put(10,10){\line(0,1){180}\...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
How about some haunting Minecraft mobs like a cheeky Enderman or a hot-headed Creeper? ;)
These were created using tikz‑3dplot and LuaTeX.
You can see the full source of the Enderman below, but all ...
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votes
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
Third Addition (!)
Now that the nightmare depicted in my original answer has become real, let us try to lighten the spirits by considering @cfr’s comment about cats. I was forced to add another ...
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32
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Should we give up pstricks?
In my opinion everyone who can should switch to LuaLaTeX. It is much more extensible and therefore much more likely to stay relevant in the future.
To make the transition easier especially for ...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
OK, it has been a rainy Saturday afternoon, but I must be crazy to have wasted more than three hours doing this…
The idea is that, since (La)TeX is a language primarily designed to handle text with ...
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30
votes
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Man running icon with TikZ
An attempt with tikz rectangles.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tikzstyle{body}= [fill=black,rounded corners=14pt]
\draw[body,rotate around={...
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What are the packages require to draw this stamp below?
Adapting a bit one answer of mine from another similar question, I wrote the following code:
(Updated to include the punched rectangle)
(Update2 to add the text in the center):
\documentclass{...
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28
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drawing patterns based on prime factorization
(See update at the end for an alternative output)
Done with Lualatex and tikz, simply converting the code from this javascript fiddle
This is a sample result for number 36:
Which was generated with:...
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27
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
For the sake of having a duck here, and to honour Harry Potter fans worldwide, here's my humble entry to the seasonal contest. :) As usual, the code is quite long for being posted here, so it's ...
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27
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pgf's and pstricks's opacity is not working
Ghostscript-9.52 introduced new operators for setting fill and stroke opacity (.setconstantfillopacity, .setconstantstrokeopacity), deprecating the hitherto existing .setopacityalpha. Starting with GS ...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
Two years ago I provided an image that some people commented looked too smiley, so here is the new improved 2016 version with a fierce scary growl.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\...
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Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
The family of Arthur's ghost Cézard with PSTricks.
http://pstricks.blogspot.fr/2011/11/synthese-additive-et-soustractive-des.html
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