[Tex/LaTex] Draw an aircraft with Tikz

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I want to draw a plane using the Tikz tool.
You will find, attached, a screenshot.

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It was suggested in chat

http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9482087#9482087

That picture mode would be the ideal tool for the job here:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(200,100)
\put(30,40){\line(1,0){150}}
\put(30,40){\line(0,1){60}}
\put(30,100){\line(1,0){20}}
\put(50,100){\line(1,-4){10}}
\put(60,60){\line(1,0){100}}
\put(160,60){\line(1,-1){20}}
\put(100,50){\line(0,-1){80}}
\put(130,50){\line(0,-1){80}}
\put(100,-30){\line(1,0){30}}
\put(100,61){\line(0,1){49}}
\put(130,61){\line(0,1){49}}
\put(100,110){\line(1,0){30}}
\end{picture}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to draw a 3D hexagonal structure with TikZ

Here's another option, using this time regular polygon from the shapes library; each of the the \hexgrid... commands has two mandatory arguments: the first one, gives a name to the grid and the second one, controls the vertical shifting; the optional argument allows to pass additional options:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning,shapes}

\newcommand\xsla{-1.2}
\newcommand\ysla{0.505}

\newcommand\hexgridv[3][]{%
\begin{scope}[%
  #1
  xscale=-1,
  yshift=#3,
  yslant=\ysla,
  xslant=\xsla,
  every node/.style={anchor=west,regular polygon, regular polygon sides=6,draw,inner sep=0.5cm},
  transform shape
]
\node (A#2) {};
\node (B#2) at ([xshift=-\pgflinewidth,yshift=-\pgflinewidth]A#2.corner 1) {};
\node (C#2) at ([xshift=-\pgflinewidth]B#2.corner 5) {};
\node (D#2) at ([xshift=-\pgflinewidth]A#2.corner 5) {};
\node (E#2) at ([xshift=-\pgflinewidth]D#2.corner 5) {};
\foreach \hex in {A,...,E}
{
  \foreach \corn in {1,...,6}
    \draw[fill=white] (\hex#2.corner \corn) circle (2pt); 
}
\end{scope}
}

\newcommand\hexgridiv[3][]{%
\begin{scope}[%
  #1,
  xscale=-1,
  yshift=#3,
  yslant=\ysla,
  xslant=\xsla,
  every node/.style={anchor=west,regular polygon, regular polygon sides=6,draw,inner sep=0.5cm},
  transform shape
]
\node (A#2) {};
\node (B#2) at (A#2.corner 5) {};
\node[xscale=-1] (C#2) at (B#2.corner 4) {};
\node (D#2) at (C#2.corner 4) {};
\foreach \hex in {A,...,D}
{
  \foreach \corn in {1,...,6}
    \draw[fill=white] (\hex#2.corner \corn) circle (2pt); 
}
\end{scope}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[>=latex]
% the three grids
\hexgridv{a}{0}
\hexgridiv[xshift=0.43cm]{b}{-60}
\hexgridv{c}{-160}

% the red lines
\foreach \corn in {2,4}
  \draw[ultra thick,red!80!black] (Aa.corner \corn) -- (Ac.corner \corn);
\draw[ultra thick,red!80!black,opacity=0.4] (Aa.corner 6) -- (Ac.corner 6);
\draw[ultra thick,red!80!black] (Da.corner 4) -- (Dc.corner 4);
\foreach \hexg in {a,c}
  \draw[thick,red!80!black] (A\hexg.corner 2) -- (A\hexg.corner 4) -- (D\hexg.corner 4);
\foreach \hexg/\opac in {a/1,c/0.4}
  \draw[thick,red!80!black,opacity=\opac] (A\hexg.corner 2) -- (A\hexg.corner 6) -- (D\hexg.corner 4);

% the red vertices
\begin{scope}[  yslant=\ysla,xslant=\xsla]
\foreach \hex/\corn in {Aa/2,Aa/4,Aa/6,Ab/3,Ac/2,Ac/4,Da/4,Cb/6,Cb/4,Dc/4} 
  \draw[fill=red!80!black] (\hex.corner \corn) circle (2pt);
\draw[fill=red!80!black,fill opacity=0.4] (Ac.corner 6) circle (2pt);
\draw[fill=red!80!black,fill opacity=0.4] (Cb.corner 2) circle (2pt);
\end{scope}

% The arrows and labels
\draw[help lines] 
  (Aa.corner 2) -- +(2.5,0) coordinate[pos=0.75] (aux1);
\draw[help lines] 
  (Ac.corner 2) -- +(2.5,0) coordinate[pos=0.75] (aux2);
\draw[<->,help lines] 
  (aux1) -- node[pos=0.25,fill=white,font=\footnotesize] {\SI{6.708}{\angstrom}} (aux2);
\draw[help lines] 
  (Ab.corner 2) -- +(1,0) coordinate[pos=0.5] (aux3);
\draw[<->,help lines] 
  (aux3) -- node[fill=white,font=\footnotesize,align=center] {b\\\SI{3.354}{\angstrom}} (aux3|-aux2);
\draw[help lines] 
  (Ac.corner 3) -- +(0,-0.45) coordinate[pos=0.5] (aux4);
\draw[help lines] 
  (Ac.corner 4) -- +(0,-0.4) coordinate[pos=0.5] (aux5);
\draw[<->,help lines] 
  (aux4) -- node[fill=white,font=\footnotesize,align=center,below=1pt] {a\\\SI{1.421}{\angstrom}} (aux5|-aux4);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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The code admits still improvements, but the main point is that it can be used as a starting point to easily define hexagonal grids. The siunitx package was used to typeset the units (thanks to Svend Tveskæg for the reminder).

[Tex/LaTex] How to draw lemniscate with TikZ

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This MWE using Asymptote uses cassinioval.asy module to build a Cassini oval as either one or two closed curves, constructed as a polargraph. It is constructed at the origin and then rotated and shifted to the location of foci A and B, see examples 1,2.

% cassini.tex :
%
\begin{filecontents*}{cassinioval.asy}
import graph;

// The polar representation used according to
// A.A. Savelov, "Planar curves" , pp.147--148, Moscow (1960) (In Russian),
// see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_oval
//
struct CassiniOval{
// { z : |z-A|·|z-B| <= C }
  pair A, B; real C;
  int npoints;

  real a,c;
  transform transf;
  real alpha;

  guide[] curve;

  real rho(real phi){
    return c*sqrt(abs(cos(2phi)+sqrt(abs(cos(2phi)^2+(a/c)^4-1))));
  };

  real rho2(real phi){
    return c*sqrt(abs(cos(2phi)-sqrt(abs(cos(2phi)^2+(a/c)^4-1))));
  };

  guide[] normLscate(){
    guide[] g;
    guide q;
    real xMax=sqrt(a^2+c^2);
    real xMin=-xMax;
    if(a>=c){// one contour;
      g.push(transf*(polargraph(rho,0,2pi,npoints)--cycle));
    }else{// two contours;
      q=polargraph(rho,-alpha,alpha,npoints)
        --reverse(polargraph(rho2,-alpha,alpha,npoints))
        --cycle;
      g=(transf*q)^^(transf*reflect(N,S)*q);

    }
    return g;
  }

  void operator init(pair A, pair B, real C, int npoints=300){
    assert(C>0);
    this.A=A; this.B=B;  this.C=C;
    assert(npoints>1);
    this.npoints=npoints;
    this.c=arclength(A--B)/2;
    this.a=sqrt(C);
    transf=shift(A)*rotate(degrees(atan2(B.y-A.y,B.x-A.x)))*shift(c,0);

    if(a<c){alpha=asin((a/c)^2)/2;}
    curve=normLscate();    
  }
}
\end{filecontents*}
%
%
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage[inline]{asymptote}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
%
\begin{document}
%
\begin{figure}
\captionsetup[subfigure]{justification=centering}
    \centering
      \begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
\begin{asy}
import cassinioval;
size(5cm);
pair A=(-2,0);
pair B=(2,0);
real C=5;

CassiniOval co=CassiniOval(A,B,C);

pen cpen=deepblue;
pen fpen=lightgreen;

fill(co.curve,fpen);
draw(co.curve,cpen);

dot(A,UnFill);
dot(B,UnFill);
label("$A$",A,W);
label("$B$",B,E);

pair Ap=(0,-2);
pair Bp=(0,2);

fpen=lightred+opacity(0.5);
filldraw(CassiniOval(Ap,Bp,C).curve,fpen,cpen);

dot(Ap,UnFill);
dot(Bp,UnFill);
label("$A^\prime$",Ap,W);
label("$B^\prime$",Bp,E);
\end{asy}
%
\caption{Example 1}
\label{fig:1a}
\end{subfigure}
%
\begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
\begin{asy}
import cassinioval;
size(5cm);
pen cpen=deepblue;
pen fpen=lightgreen+opacity(0.2);

pair A=(-3,-1);
pair B=(2,3);
real C;
CassiniOval co;

for(int i=6;i<16;++i){
  C=i;
  co=CassiniOval(A,B,C);
  filldraw(co.curve,fpen,cpen);
}

dot(A,UnFill);
dot(B,UnFill);
label("$A$",A,W);
label("$B$",B,E);

\end{asy}
%
\caption{Example 2}
\label{fig:1b}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}
%
\end{document}
%
% Process:
%
% pdflatex cassini.tex    
% asy cassini-*.asy    
% pdflatex cassini.tex

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