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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ
LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

LaTeX Graphics with TikZ: A practitioner's guide to drawing 2D and 3D images, diagrams, charts, and plots

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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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Key benefits

  • Achieve native construction of images and diagrams in your LaTex theses, articles, or books with enhanced quality
  • Discover comprehensive explanations and real-world use cases to apply in your own endavors
  • Explore customizations and tweaks to grasp the synergy of LaTeX and TikZ graphics

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for LaTeX users, including students and academic authors, seeking to incorporate figures such as diagrams, plots, and graphics to their theses, articles, and books. If you’re familiar with LaTeX basics from beginner’s books or tutorials, you’ll be able to effortlessly explore the graphics topics in this book.

What you will learn

  • Understand the TikZ language and how to use its libraries and packages
  • Draw geometric shapes with text and add arrows, labels, and decorations
  • Apply transformations and use transparency, shading, fading, and filling features
  • Define styles and program with loops to streamline your code
  • Build trees, graphs, and mind maps and draw easy curves with smooth transitions
  • Produce block diagrams and flow charts to visualize process steps
  • Generate line charts and bar charts to showcase your data
  • Plot data sets and mathematical functions in two and three dimensions

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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Drawing and Positioning Nodes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Drawing Edges and Arrows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Using Styles and Pics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Drawing Trees and Graphs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Filling, Clipping, and Shading Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Decorating Paths Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Using Layers, Overlays, and Transparency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Calculating with Coordinates and Paths Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Transforming Coordinates and Canvas Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Drawing Smooth Curves Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Plotting in 2D and 3D Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Drawing Diagrams Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Having Fun with TikZ Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The ebook is very large. This makes it hard to access on any device without substantial memory. Perhaps there is a remedy for this problem.
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Thomas Schlusnath Oct 16, 2023
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The book is excellent to get a good understanding about the concept behind TikZ and pgf. I used LaTex and TikZ in a way of copy and paste from different websites but had no deeper understanding of TikZ. The TikZ manual is excellent, of course, but as a beginner you get lost in the level of details provided. Mr.Kottwitz book fills the gap of an easy-to-learn introduction to TikZ and will enable me to work successful with the TikZ manual.
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Ereschi Jul 23, 2023
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I love it, is an easy use book to make good looking documents in a very short time.
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That's me Dec 09, 2023
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Clearly written and easy to understand. The examples can be applied immediately. An excellent book.
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