Testing the behavior of shading in TikZ with different angles and shapes.
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% Author: Izaak Neutelings (May 2021) % Description: hadronic top quark jet \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{physics} \usepackage{xcolor} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \usetikzlibrary{math} % for \tikzmath \tikzset{>=latex} % for LaTeX arrow head \colorlet{myblue}{blue!60!black} \colorlet{mydarkblue}{blue!5!black} \colorlet{mylightblue}{blue!60!black!5} \begin{document} % RESOLVED TOP JETS \begin{tikzpicture} \def\N{40} \def\oang{26} % opening angle triangle \foreach\i [evaluate={\x=1.2*\i; \ang=\i*360/\N}] in {0,...,\N}{ % SQUARE \draw[thick,mydarkblue, top color=mylightblue,bottom color=mydarkblue,shading angle=\ang] (\x,0) rectangle++ (1,1); \begin{scope} \clip (\x,0) rectangle++ (1,1); \draw[thick,myblue] (\x+0.5,0.5)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \draw[thin,myblue,shift={(\ang-90:0.35)}] (\x+0.5,0.5)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \draw[thin,myblue,shift={(\ang+90:0.35)}] (\x+0.5,0.5)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \end{scope} % CIRCLE \draw[thick,mydarkblue, top color=mylightblue,bottom color=mydarkblue,shading angle=\ang] (\x+0.5,1.6) circle(0.5); \begin{scope} \clip (\x+0.5,1.6) circle(0.5); \draw[thick,myblue] (\x+0.5,1.6)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \draw[thin,myblue,shift={(\ang-90:0.35)}] (\x+0.5,1.6)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \draw[thin,myblue,shift={(\ang+90:0.35)}] (\x+0.5,1.6)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \end{scope} % TRIANGLE \draw[thick,mydarkblue, top color=mylightblue,bottom color=mydarkblue,shading angle=\ang] %-\oang (\x+0.5,2.8)++(\ang-180:0.5) --++ (\ang-\oang:1) --++ (\ang+90:{2*sin(\oang)}) -- cycle; \begin{scope} \clip (\x+0.5,2.8)++(\ang-180:0.5) --++ (\ang-\oang:1) --++ (\ang+90:{2*sin(\oang)}) -- cycle; \draw[thick,myblue] (\x+0.5,2.8)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \draw[thin,myblue,shift={(\ang-90:0.2)}] (\x+0.5,2.8)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \draw[thin,myblue,shift={(\ang+90:0.2)}] (\x+0.5,2.8)++(\ang+180:1) --++ (\ang:2); \end{scope} } \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
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