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Sizes in LaTeX Here is an overview of sizes in LaTeX: TikZ TikZ thicknes Usage example: \draw[ultra thick, blue,dashed](a -| current plot begin) -- (a); ultra thin very thin thin semithick thick very thick ultra thick more Text Usage example: \Huge \(\varepsilon\) \tiny \scriptsize \footnotesize \small \normalsize \large \Large \LARGE \huge \Huge … Read More »

Plotting graphs with PGFplots (LaTeX and Tikz) I guess many of you might need to plot functions or data once. So I've made one example that shows much of the features you might need: You can see how to change the axis' from normal linear scale to logarithmic scale. Some axis-manipulations were used. I have used a … Read More »

My LaTeX Tikz Template Sometimes I would like to create a single picture with Tikz for later usage on Wikipedia or my Blog. This is my LaTeX Tikz template I use in such a situation: The templates latex-document.tex \documentclass[varwidth=true, border=2pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture … Read More »

Complex LaTeX visualizations (Tikz) You can create some very complex visualizations with LaTeX. Take a look at these: Circumscribed polygons and circles Used matlab Source: texample.net Mosaic from Pompeii Source: texample.net Plane Sections of the Cylinder - Dandelin Spheres Source: texample.net Example: Dipolar magnetic field Source: texample.net Gamma interaction Source: texample … Read More »

How to visualize Graph algorithms with LaTeX Tkiz is a very powerful TeX package. You can easily create visualizations of graphs and graph algorithms (if you have a template 😉). This post should give you a template to visualize graph algorithms with LaTeX. I recently found a great animation of Prim's algorithm done by Kjell Magne Fauske. I've … Read More »

How to draw a finite-state machine Finite-state machines are necessary to show that some problems are computable (or not). As I am currently learning something about them, I would like to be able to plot those finite automatons automatically. I will use graphviz. Nondeterministic finite-state machine Nondeterministic finite-state machine This image is created from a gv-file … Read More »