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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Creating an animation


To show a developing process or to demonstrate changes, an in-place animation can be more convenient than a series of images.

As an example application, we will draw a recursively-defined fractal curve, the Koch curve. An animation will present the stages of the curve, which become more complex with higher numbers of recursions.

How to do it...

The animate package provides a simple way to generate an animation. Try this with the Koch curve, to show growing complexity by performing the following steps:

  1. Start with any document class. Here, we choose the standalone class, which we already mentioned earlier. Here, the paper tightly fits the animation:

    \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
  2. Load the animate package:

    \usepackage{animate}
  3. Load the TikZ package. Furthermore, load the lindenmayersystems library for producing fractals, and the shadings library to fill with a shading:

    \usepackage{tikz}
    \usetikzlibrary{lindenmayersystems,shadings}
  4. We define the fractal with the library...

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