Who does not enjoy lego bricks, raise a hand! In this post, I am sharing an elegant and efficient way of plotting bricks under 3d view in TikZ. Briefly speaking, it utilizes canvas transforms to plot facets, and describes boundaries of studs in a simple way with cylindrical coordinates based on the azimuth angle (localizing …
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Cylinders in LaTeX the Easy and Correct Way
Drawing cylinders in vector graphic is a common task. It is less trivial as it looks at first glance, due to the challenge of finding a proper projection. In this post, I share a simple and robust recipe using the tikz-3dplot package of LaTeX. As opposed to many examples shared online, this approach automatically identifies …
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