author : Stefan Kottwitz

You’ll learn all the details starting with drawing nodes, edges, and arrows and arranging them with perfect alignment. As you explore advanced features, you’ll gain proficiency in using colors and transparency for filing and shading, and clipping image parts. You’ll learn to define TikZ styles and work with coordinate calculations and transformations.

That’s not all! You’ll work with layers, overlays, absolute positioning, and adding special decorations and take it a step further using add-on packages for drawing diagrams, charts, and plots.

By the end of this TikZ book, you’ll have mastered the finer details of image creation, enabling you to achieve visually stunning graphics with great precision.

What you will learn

• Understand the TikZ language and how to use its libraries end packages
• Draw geometric shapes with text and add arrows, labels, and decorations
• Apply transformations and use transparency, shading, fading, and filling features
• Define styles and program with loops to streamline your code
• Build trees, graphs, and mind maps and draw easy curves with smooth transitions
• Produce block diagrams and flow charts to visualize process steps
• Generate line charts and bar charts to showcase your data
• Plot data sets and mathematical functions in two and three dimensions