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Testing simple transformations
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usetikzlibrary{calc}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\draw[thin,dotted] (-1,-1) grid (3,3);\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (3.2,0);\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,3.2);\draw[yshift=2cm] (0,0) -- (1,1);\draw[xshift=1cm, yshift=2cm] (0,0) circle(1);\draw[shift={(1cm,2cm)}] (0,0) circle(1);\draw ([shift={(2,3)}]1,1) -- (4,5);\draw ($(1,1)+(3,4)$) -- (4,5);\coordinate (A) at (-3, 1);\coordinate (B) at (-1, 1);\draw (A) -- (B) node[pos=0.5, yshift=2mm] {text};\draw[yshift=2cm] (A) -- (B);\draw ([yshift=2cm]A.east) -- ([yshift=2cm]B.west);\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.1 – Rotating a triangle around the origin
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}% grid and coordinate axes:\draw[thin,dotted] (-1,-1) grid (3,3);\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (3,0);\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,3);% original triangle:\fill[gray!40] (0,1) -- (3,1) -- (2,2) --cycle;% rotated triangle:\fill[orange, rotate=45] (0,1) -- (3,1) -- (2,2) --cycle;% clipped circles to show the rotation:\begin{scope}\clip (0,1) rectangle (3,2.82);\draw[densely dotted] circle(3.16);\end{scope}\begin{scope}\clip (0,3) rectangle (2,2);\draw[densely dotted] circle(2.83);\end{scope}\begin{scope}\clip (-0.7,0.6) rectangle (0,1);\draw[densely dotted] circle(1);\end{scope}\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.2 – Rotating a triangle around a point
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\draw[thin,dotted] (-1,-1) grid (3,3);\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (3.2,0);\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,3.2);% original triangle:\fill[gray!40] (0,1) -- (3,1) -- (2,2) --cycle;% rotated triangle:\fill[orange,rotate around={45:(0,1)}](0,1) -- (3,1) -- (2,2) --cycle;% clipped circles to show the rotation:\begin{scope}\clip (2.1,3.1) rectangle (3,1);\draw[blue, densely dotted] (0,1) circle(3);\end{scope}\begin{scope}\clip (0.72,3.2) rectangle (2,2);\draw[blue, densely dotted] (0,1) circle(2.24);\end{scope}\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.3 – Scaled triangle
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\draw[thin,dotted] (-1,-1) grid (6,3);\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (6.2,0);\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,3.2);% scaled triangle:\fill[orange, scale around={2:(0,1)}](0,1) -- (3,1) -- (2,2) --cycle;% original triangle:\fill[gray!40,opacity=0.6] (0,1) -- (3,1) -- (2,2) --cycle;\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.4 – A mirrored scope
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usepackage{tikzducks}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\begin{scope}[xscale=-1,transform shape]\duck[laughing,speech={\tiny Oh a mirror!}]\end{scope}\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.5 – Multiple transformations of nodes
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usepackage{tikzducks}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}[transform shape, every node/.style={draw, fill=white}]\draw[thin,dotted] (-3,-3) grid (3,3);\draw[->] (-3,0) -- (3.2,0);\draw[->] (0,-3) -- (0,3.2);\draw circle(2);\node[xshift=2cm, rotate=45] {A};\node[rotate=45, xshift=2cm] {B};\node[rotate=45, yshift=2cm, yscale=-1] {P};\node[yscale=-1, yshift=2cm, rotate=45] {Q};\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.6 – Rotated and scaled squares
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usetikzlibrary{positioning}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\foreach \i in {90,85,...,5}\node[fill=black!\i, scale=\i, rotate=\i/2] {};\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.7 – A slanted 3×3 grid
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usetikzlibrary{positioning}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}% \draw[thin,dotted] (-3,-3) grid (3,3);% \draw[->] (-3,0) -- (3,0);% \draw[->] (0,-3) -- (0,3);\draw[yslant=0.5] (0,0) grid +(3,3);\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Testing slanting
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usetikzlibrary{calc}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\draw[thin,dotted] (-1,-1) grid (3,3);\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (3.2,0);\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,3.2);\filldraw[yslant=1] (0,0) circle (0.3) node [right] {1}(1,0) circle (0.3) node [right] {2}(1,0) circle (0.3) node [right] {3}(3,0) circle (0.3) node [right] {4}(0,1) circle (0.3) node [right] {5};\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.8 – A cube made from slanted grids
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}\usetikzlibrary{positioning}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\draw[yslant=0.5,left color=gray!10, right color=gray!70](3,-3) rectangle +(3,3)(3,-3) grid +(3,3);\draw[yslant=-0.5,left color=black!50, right color=gray!10](0,0) rectangle +(3,3)(0,0) grid +(3,3);\draw[yslant=0.5,xslant=-1,bottom color=gray!10, top color=black!80](3,0) rectangle +(3,3)(3,0) grid +(3,3);\node[yslant=-0.5, scale=3.2]at (1.5,1.75) {TikZ};\node[yslant= 0.5, scale=3.2]at (4.5,1.75) {Cube};\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Transformations without effect
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}\usepackage{tikz}\usetikzlibrary{positioning}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\node (tex) [fill=orange, text=white] {TEX};\node (pdf) [fill={rgb:red,244;green,15;blue,2},text=white, right=of tex] {PDF};\draw (tex) edge[->,yshift= 0.1mm, rotate= 4] (pdf);\draw (tex) edge[->,yshift=-0.1mm, rotate=-4] (pdf);\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
Figure 11.9 – Transformed arrows
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}\usepackage{tikz}\usetikzlibrary{positioning}\begin{document}\begin{tikzpicture}\node (tex) [fill=orange, text=white] {TEX};\node (pdf) [fill={rgb:red,244;green,15;blue,2},text=white, right=of tex] {PDF};\draw (tex) edge[->,transform canvas={yshift= 0.1mm,rotate=4}] (pdf);\draw (tex) edge[->,transform canvas={yshift=-0.1mm,rotate=-4}] (pdf);\end{tikzpicture}\end{document}
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