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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618233
Pages 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
Profile icon Stefan Kottwitz

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ 2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images 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

Exploring the available decoration types

TikZ has decorations that change a path, also called morphing a path. This will be our next topic.

Other decorations replace a path with symbols; we will see them later in this section.

To summarize and compare, we will provide some figures containing several drawings or paths. The figure caption will include the options used for each path, always in order from top to bottom. You can find the code for each figure on GitHub and on TikZ.org on the page for this chapter.

Morphing paths

Morphing means modifying a path to become, for example, a zigzag or jagged line. We will distinguish between linear and curvy morphing. We have to load the corresponding library in the preamble by using \usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}.

The decorations of this library have optional values, such as these:

  • amplitude: Determines how much the changed path goes above and below the original path
  • segment length: The length of such a decoration...
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