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NiceMatrix + Tikz Determinants Picture

Just for fun and learning, an option using tikz matrix, then through code nested in definitions with parameters, taking advantage of the calc library you can obtain the angle between 2 points, then ...
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How to move the color blocks into the red frame region marked?

You can take advantage of the node names and the remember picture option, that way in a tikz picture environment with the overlay option you can draw whatever using points relative to the node name ...
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How to move the color blocks into the red frame region marked?

Made entirely with TikZ, even though it doesn't suit you. \documentclass[aspectratio=2013]{beamer} \usepackage{tikz,subcaption} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \tikzset{legend/.style={fill=#1,minimum ...
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Tikz: How to vertically align text across multiple nodes?

The tcolorbox package does this natively. Here I'm using the fitting library, which gives tcolorboxes fixed dimensions. To space them, I've placed jumps \hspace{1cm}. \documentclass{article} \...
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Problem with add/.style in tkz-euclide

A to path operation is – at its core – just an expansion of whatever is stored in to path. That means your path \draw[line style,#1] (#2) to (#3); just becomes \draw[line style,#1] (#2) ($(#2)!…!(#3)...
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Strange extra arrow behavior in tikz because xshift

In this case, the tips=proper key is used to draw arrows only where they are required. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{bending, arrows, arrows.meta} \begin{document} \begin{...
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Customizable Vertical Rule / Divider Like `\vrule` With Automatic Height

Answer to revised question To do this in arbitrary contexts, you need to have a self-sufficient way of measuring the height and depth of the content on each side of the rule. The most straightforward ...
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Date format option not working on genealogytree

I didn't look into the package to figure out why, but it works if you define the date format after \begin{document}. \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \usepackage[all]{genealogytree} \gtrset{ ...
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Modification of exam `answer plot` to allow drawing partial opacity when `\printanswers` is uncommented

You can use \if \else \fi inside a tikzpicture. \printanswers sets \ifprintanswers. \documentclass{exam} \usepackage{amsmath} \def\bm#1{\mathbf{#1}} \def\paren#1{(#1)} \usepackage{pgf,tikz} \...
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Modification of exam `answer plot` to allow drawing partial opacity when `\printanswers` is uncommented

Here's a solution I came up with that defines two styles, answer plot and answer fill. It does the trick for now. Let me know if you think there's a better way. \documentclass{exam} \usepackage{pgf,...
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How to create a command to plot a series of square lattices on a given line?

You can use LaTeX3 to define a parser \meiu_range_to_list:nN \seq_new:N \l__meiu_tmpa_seq \seq_new:N \l__meiu_tmpb_seq \clist_new:N \l__meiu_tmpa_clist \cs_set_nopar:Npn \meiu_range_to_list:nN #1#2 {...
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Creating the projective plane PG(2,3) (picture included) using tikz

Here is a version that allows for labelling of the nodes: \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[ every node/.style={fill=black,circle, text=...
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Drawing an affine plane in latex

And here is a complete version: \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \tikzset{node distance=2cm, every node/.style={circle,thin, fill=black}} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} ...
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How to create a command to plot a series of square lattices on a given line?

If you don't mind staying with the TikZ syntax for the loop: \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \newcommand\sqrs[2]{% \foreach \x in {#2}% \fill[#1] (\x,12) rectangle+ (-1,-1);} \begin{...
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How do I make the text bend along the function using tikz if possible?

Approaches: Guessing the positions. (They are not linear to the x value.) Taking inspiration from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/88421/16595 we can combinate the fillbetween library and place a node ...
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How can I get `f(2/3) = 20/9` and `f(4/3) = 16/9` of the function f(x) = 3 *x^3 - 9*x^2 + 8*x when I use pgf/tikz

Below, a key declare xintexpr function is defined. This must be a function of one variable named \x. It will define the function for pgfmath and also for \xintdeffunc. Also a key number format/...
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tikz diagram skier on a slope

is it possible to reproduce this schema with tikzpicture ? Yes, as you've seen already. Here is a way to do it via my answer in comment A) 1. Get an image So I found an uphill skier on a sign. Cur it ...
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tikz diagram skier on a slope

is it possible to reproduce this schema with tikzpicture ? Yes, as you've seen already. Here is a way to do it via my SVG suggestion C) Now, this one is simple, as it has been asked and answered ...
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tikz diagram skier on a slope

is it possible to reproduce this schema with tikzpicture ? Yes, as you've seen already. Here is a way to do it via my scribble suggestion B) 1. Scribble the skier uphill I did what I wrote: sketched ...
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Checking if the version of TikZ is newer in a format-independent way

This here implements a general loop which compares two different version numbers. The following syntax is supported: Parts of the version number are separated by a dot. In the expected version number ...
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Checking if the version of TikZ is newer in a format-independent way

A somewhat elegant test for your use case which supports a hardcoded number of 3 digits, and uses your split result. I also used the \pgfutil@ since you're loading pgf anyway and that provides \@...
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NiceMatrix + Tikz Determinants Picture

A solution with pic \documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{nicematrix} \begin{document} $ \begin{NiceArray}{*{5}{>{\mathstrut}c}}[columns-width=...
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tikz diagram skier on a slope

As suggested by SamCarter... \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}%,pgf} %\usepackage{pgfplots} %\usetikzlibrary{calc,angles} \usetikzlibrary{angles} %\usetikzlibrary{arrows} %\usetikzlibrary{...
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tikz diagram skier on a slope

The boring solution: use a skier from the fontawesome5package: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}%,pgf} %\usepackage{pgfplots} %\usetikzlibrary{calc,angles} \usetikzlibrary{angles} %\...
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Center Tikz pictures used as tick labels in Pgfplots

You have several spaces in the piechart. I can not recommend doing this as it nest tikzpictures. It might be done with a path picture or simply drawn afterwards. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{...
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TikZ-PGF surface edges smoothing

There is no automatic way to avoid that problem - the function is evaluated on a regular mesh. Here is one way to get a better result: \documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots}...
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Tikz graphs not aligned

See if the following MWE givers what you after. In it I reduce preamble to loading only to your problem relevant packages (geometry, pgfplots (version 1.18), subcaption) from diagram code remove ...
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PGFPlots library fillbetween causing a bunch of "Missing Character" warnings

This has been reported and fixed in the development version: https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgfplots/issues/456 Basically you have to use \ifdim instead of \ifnum in an internal command: \documentclass[...
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Two for loops and the second starts with i+1

You could just do \foreach[count=\ii from 1] \i in {2,...,#1} { \foreach \j in {1,...,\ii} { which removes any necessity for calculating anything by letting the loop count an offset to \i. You can ...
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Reproducing the lichess opening tree stat bar

You did not explain much about how exact the output should match the picture you provide, but something like this could be a starting point (the thin white lines in the output are rendering errors): \...
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Strange rendering of 3d surface with pgfplots

Changing what is a possible error in your equation gives the expected result (so it is not the exact same equation): \documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{...
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add customize line header not smooth connected

Ultimately, I think for big arrow tips, simply drawing a white shortened lines on top of the normal line including the bending library and a sep instead of the shorten keys will lead to nicer looking ...
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modify shorten value for inner draw command

What happens is that postaction is independent of the properties that you add later, if you want them to affect what is in postaction you must do it through an additional variable, in this case I ...
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add customize line header not smooth connected

Different approach: draw two arrows above each other \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \coordinate (A) at (0,0); ...
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Naming tikz pics doesn't work on v.3.1.10

Since version v3.1.10 TikZ includes both name prefix and name suffix for the local bounding box. Since the pic's name is appended to the name prefix this would be applied twice, meaning that the ...
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I cannot get Pgfplots to display all my axis labels

Thanks to @alchemist, here is the code that ended up displaying the labels that I needed on both axes: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=newest} \usepackage{tikz} \...
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How to add a legend to a Kiviat diagram with mutltiple lines? (tkz-kiviat)

You can use the MetaPost package mpkiviat (https://ctan.org/pkg/mpkiviat) that mimics tkz-kiviat. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{luamplib} \usepackage{fourier-otf} \begin{document} \begin{...
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I cannot get Pgfplots to display all my axis labels

Seems to me the first and last ticks in both x and y axis are taken as the minimal resp maximal values of x / y when plotting the axes. So add the following lines to your code: xmin=153, xmax=197, ...
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groupplot: width and alignment

This uses three axis environment, using yshift and xshift to align them. Interestingly, putting a group plot into a savebox is not allowed (something about prevdepth). \documentclass[tikz, margin=5mm]...
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TikZ - multi-color double circle node

The great nfold library by Jonathan can make this very easy (and would work with other shapes as well – with a small caveat†). I'll provide two styles, one that doesn't change the outer sep (the ...
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inner xsep/ysep 0 not work as expected

You can see what is happening a bit more clearly if you use different colours to distinguish the inner and outer circle around B: \begin{tikzpicture} \node (A) [double circle={5pt}{red}, draw=blue,...
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Combining `\addplot3` Commands with Separate Colors in PGFPlots

You have syntax errors in your colormap. There is a bug in PGFPlots when using z buffer=sort combined with a non-uniform colormap. \documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \...
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Tikz: image act as transparency filter

I finally found the solution using fadings, notably the great tikzfadingfrompicture that is well documented and is basically exactly an equivalent of transparency masks. I needed also to invert the ...
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Non-label Marks at points in tikzpicture

If you want a label different from the node name : \tkzLabelPoint(Ref){Label} You can use the macro \foreach but it's not necessary \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{tkz-euclide} \begin{...
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draw a circle shape with white inner circle by one command

One can use https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/36858/36296 : \documentclass[border=4mm] {standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \tikzset{ old inner xsep/.estore in=\...
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how to draw this bar chart in latex?

Something to get you started; keys: absolute positions AND related to the nodes anchors you could switch to matrix placement for more flexibility place basic elements first introduce and modify ...
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Non-label Marks at points in tikzpicture

Adaptations added a \foreach loop with counter \xi over A to D draw nodes with fill=white at the vertices (If you want to place the nodes outside the polygon, you might need to define the position (...
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Cannot write \Cup in tikz-qtree binary tree structure in LateX

Here's a forest version which sets up a style my tree and makes it the default for all forest trees. (This could be shortened a bit by using the linguistics library.) I don't know whether you want \...
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How to draw a simple cone with height and radius with TikZ?

If you want to draw a geometrically accurate picture (with the two segments actually tangent to the ellipse at the bottom), here is an alternative to Dan's description. We first draw a circle with two ...
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Cannot write \Cup in tikz-qtree binary tree structure in LateX

If your nodes contain math formulas, you have to tell it to TeX. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{tikz-qtree} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \Tree [. $c\cup d$ ...
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