LaTeX and TikZ examples

Author: Tobit Flatscher (2018-2020)

A couple of (animated) vector figures created with LaTeX and TikZ.

Currently this repository contains the following examples:

• An animated cosmological model of concentric spheres (Eudoxus planetary model). The interesting thing about this graphic is that it involves two coordinate transformations, one of which is performed manually.
• Another one displays the different scales of fluid models. It demonstrates the usage of patterns and generation of random values.
• The principle of the Fourier analysis is illustrated in yet another file.
• The last example shows how the Stokes' law can be derived by means of integration of stresses.

For opening the animated figures on Linux I recommend using Okular as many other common document viewers do not support it.

Usage

Clearly you can open the *.tex files located in src in your favourite LaTeX editor such as TexStudio. Otherwise this repository also comes with a Makefile which will compile all the *.tex files located in the src folder to the build folder. This requires the latexmk package, which can be installed on Ubuntu with $ apt-get -y update latexmk.

The Makefile has two rules:

• $ make all compiles all individual *.tex files to *.pdf files

• $ make clean deletes all the files again that were generated during the compilation

In case you do not want to install LaTeX on your computer this repository also comes with a Docker (see the folder docker) and a corresponding Docker-Compose file.