[Tex/LaTex] Two images to fill one beamer frame: most appropriate method

beamergraphics

Suppose I have two images: one a solid blue square and another a yellow. What is the most appropriate way to divide and fill an entire beamer frame with these images? Horizontally (i.e., left half blue right half yellow)? Vertically? (i.e., top half blue bottom half yellow)

This post provides a method, but it involves low-level operations. Another post (can't find the link now) suggests using TikZ.

Is there a third that doesn't involve low-level operations or complicated external packages? I'm confused. I'd think this task wouldn't be all that difficult.

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You can use the standard \includegraphics command setting the proper values for the width and height in terms of \paperwidth and \paperheight; a box (in this case \makebox) will prevent an overfull box; using plain for the frames will remove the headline, footline:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]
\makebox[\linewidth]{%
  \includegraphics[width=0.5\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{cat1}%
  \includegraphics[width=0.5\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{cat2}}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[plain]
\makebox[\linewidth]{%
  \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=0.5\paperheight]{cat1}}\\\nointerlineskip
\makebox[\linewidth]{%
  \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=0.5\paperheight]{cat2}
}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Multiple Images in one frame Beamer

Here's one possibility using \only:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{bbding}

\newenvironment<>{citemize}
  {\bgroup\setbeamertemplate{itemize item}{\Checkmark}\begin{itemize}}
  {\end{itemize}\egroup}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{block}
    {\textbf{\textit{Robotics Control}}\\Prof. Bruno Siciliano}
    \begin{citemize}
        \item Industrial Robots\pause
        \item Direct and Inverse Kinematics\pause
\only<3-5>{
\begin{center}
        \only<3-5>{\par\smallskip\raisebox{-0.5\height}[0pt][0pt]{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-a}}}
        \only<4,5>{\par\raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-b}}}
        \only<5>{\par\raisebox{-1.5\height}[0pt][0pt]{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-c}}}
\end{center}
}
        \item<6-> Direct and Inverse Dynamics
        \item<7-> Planning of the EE Trajectory
    \setcounter{beamerpauses}{7} 
    \end{citemize}\pause   
    Different robot control techniques:\pause
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
        \item Centralized and Decentralized Control
        \item Pre-Computed Torque Control       
        \item PD Control with Gravity Compensation 
        \item Force Control
    \end{itemize}
\end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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The original definition of \tick:

\newcommand*\tick{\item[\Checkmark]}

is not a good one, since \tick is not overlay aware (which is desirable and, in fact, it's needed in the present situation). In my code I defined an overlay-aware citemize environment that changes the item label to \Checkmark and still lets you use the standard \item command.

[Tex/LaTex] Images in two columns in beamer

In this approach, subcaption package (which provides subfigure envrionment too) is used; instead of subfigure package. Please note that some packages have been disable to prevent crash.

Edit:

To remove the label (a) and (b), use \captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=empty} from caption package.
To remove the subcaption wording, simply delete the subcaption.
To increase the vertical space between two images, use \vskip xxpt.

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\documentclass[compress,red]{beamer}
\usepackage{etex}
\mode<presentation>
\usetheme{Warsaw}
%\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}  %les accents pour mac. for xelatex, pdflatex is used here
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{font=small}
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty}
\usepackage[list=true]{subcaption}
%\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}  % beamer already load this
\usepackage{multicol}
  \usepackage{animate}
%  \usepackage{movie 15}
 \usepackage{amsmath}
 \usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[all,knot]{xy}
\xyoption{arc}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{array,ragged2e}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{multirow} 

\begin{document}
   \section{section1}
   \begin{frame}[shrink]
   \frametitle{Titre de la fenetre}
\begin{columns}
  \column{2in}
\begin{figure}
\centering
 \subcaptionbox{subcaption}{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-a}}\\
 \subcaptionbox{subcaption}{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-b}}
 \caption{Image 1} 
\end{figure}
  \column{2in}
\begin{figure}
\centering
 \subcaptionbox{Scénario 1}{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-a}}\\
 \subcaptionbox{Scénario 2}{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-b}}
 \caption{Image 2}
\end{figure}
 \end{columns}
 \end{frame}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Images in two columns in beamer

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