https://github.com/matthias-wolff/tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere

Drawing circles of a sphere with tikz-3dplot
https://github.com/matthias-wolff/tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere

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Drawing circles of a sphere with tikz-3dplot

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/matthias-wolff/tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere
• Owner: matthias-wolff
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-07-26T10:00:05.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-05-24T18:17:28.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T12:16:01.639Z (3 months ago)
• Language: TeX
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• Size: 2.21 MB
• Stars: 31
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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### The tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere Package: Drawing Circles of a Sphere with tikz-3dplot

#### Abstract

A _circle of a sphere_ is a circle drawn on a spherical surface like, for instance, circles of latitude or longitude. 

Circles in arbitrary 3D positions can be drawn with TikZ [2] very easily using a transformed coordinate system provided 

by the `tikz-3dplot` package [1] (that is because TikZ can only draw circles on the _xy_-plane). However, automatically 

distinguishing the parts of the circle lying on the front and back sides of the sphere, e.g. by drawing a solid arc on 

the front side and a dashed one on the back side, is a somewhat tricky feat. The `tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere` package 

will perform that feat for you.

__Examples__ 

  

    

    

  

  

    Example 1: Latitude-longitude grid

    Example 2: Bunch of great circles

  

#### Package Documentation

[Click here to read package documentation](tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere.pdf).

#### Installation

Download the [`tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere.sty`](https://rawgit.com/matthias-wolff/tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere/master/tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere.sty) file into your project folder and include the package with 

`\usepackage{tikz-3dplot-circleofsphere}`.

#### References

1. Jeff Hein. The tikz-3dplot package. http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot/tikz-3dplot_documentation.pdf, 2012 Retrieved July 27, 2018.

2. Till Tantau. Tikz & pgf - manual for version 3.0.1a. http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2018.