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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618233
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ 2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Drawing and Positioning Nodes 4. Chapter 4: Drawing Edges and Arrows 5. Chapter 5: Using Styles and Pics 6. Chapter 6: Drawing Trees and Graphs 7. Chapter 7: Filling, Clipping, and Shading 8. Chapter 8: Decorating Paths 9. Chapter 9: Using Layers, Overlays, and Transparency 10. Chapter 10: Calculating with Coordinates and Paths 11. Chapter 11: Transforming Coordinates and Canvas 12. Chapter 12: Drawing Smooth Curves 13. Chapter 13: Plotting in 2D and 3D 14. Chapter 14: Drawing Diagrams 15. Chapter 15: Having Fun with TikZ 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Drawing cute creatures

The internet is full of memes about animals and cartoon characters. They have found their way into TikZ as well. In addition, avatars of users from the TikZ community and their favorite animals have been immortalized through the TikZ code. Let’s see some examples.

Playing with rubber ducks

Ducks are well-known for internet memes. In the developer community, for example, rubber duck debugging is a famous software debugging technique where the programmer explains their code in front of a rubber duck in every detail. By explaining it and articulating details and reasons, programmers can identify issues or bugs they would not have noticed by staring at the code. The rubber duck toy is also here rather as a meme than the solution itself. You can use, for example, a teddy bear instead, whom you will meet in the next section.

Rubber ducks, as classic toys, are so playful and fun that they have become a popular collectible item. Companies offer rubber...

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