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Creating the First TikZ Images
This chapter will work with the most basic but essential concepts.
Specifically, our topics are as follows:
- Using the tikzpicture environment
- Working with coordinates
- Drawing geometric shapes
- Using colors
This gives us the foundation to move on to more complex drawings in the upcoming chapters.
It’s good if you already know the basics of geometry and coordinates, but we will have a quick look at the parts we need.
By the end of this chapter, you’ll learn how to create colored drawings with lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, and arcs and how to position them in a coordinate system.
Technical requirements
You need to have LaTeX on your computer, or you can use Overleaf to compile the code examples of this ...
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