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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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Book Image

LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

In this first-of-its-kind TikZ book, you’ll embark on a journey to discover the fascinating realm of TikZ—what it’s about, the philosophy behind it, and what sets it apart from other graphics libraries. From installation procedures to the intricacies of its syntax, this comprehensive guide will help you use TikZ to create flawless graphics to captivate your audience in theses, articles, or books. You’ll learn all the details starting with drawing nodes, edges, and arrows and arranging them with perfect alignment. As you explore advanced features, you’ll gain proficiency in using colors and transparency for filling and shading, and clipping image parts. You’ll learn to define TikZ styles and work with coordinate calculations and transformations. That’s not all! You’ll work with layers, overlays, absolute positioning, and adding special decorations and take it a step further using add-on packages for drawing diagrams, charts, and plots. By the end of this TikZ book, you’ll have mastered the finer details of image creation, enabling you to achieve visually stunning graphics with great precision.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Reverse clipping

Sometimes, we may want the opposite of clipping – instead of cutting away everything that’s not in our clipping area, we would only cut out that part inside a particular area.

First, let’s look at regular clipping again. This time, we will color a different segment of our pair of intersecting rings from Figure 7.11, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 7.16 – Another segment to fill

Figure 7.16 – Another segment to fill

The code is a straightforward exercise of what we already know. We will choose the smaller circle on the left as a clipping path and draw the right ring. The code is as follows:

\begin{tikzpicture}[even odd rule]
  \clip (-1,0) circle (1.2);
  \fill[orange] (1,0) circle (1.2) (1,0) circle (2);
\end{tikzpicture}

Now to our challenge, coloring the other part of the right ring, as follows:

Figure 7.17 – Another segment to fill

Figure 7.17 – Another segment to fill

To also practice limiting the clipping...