Ellipse

Ellipse

Bases: DrawingObject

A class to create ellipses in the tikz environment.

The ellipse class handles ellipses in Tikz. It it analagous to the Tikz command

\draw[options] <center> ellipse (<x_radius> and <y_radius>);

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
center	Union[Tuple[float, float], Point]	Position of the center of the ellipse	required
x_axis	float	The length (in cm) of the horizontal axis of the ellipse	required
y_axis	float	The length (in cm) of the vertical axis of the ellipse	required
options	str	TikZ options to draw with	''
action	str	The type of TikZ action to use. Default is "draw"	'draw'

east property

east: Point

Returns the east point of the ellipse.

north property

north: Point

Returns the north point of the ellipse.

south property

south: Point

Returns the south point of the ellipse.

west property

west: Point

Returns the west point of the ellipse.

Example

Here we draw and ellipse and define the major and minors axes.

import tikzpy

tikz = tikzpy.TikzPicture()

# x,y axes
tikz.line((-5, 0), (5, 0), options="Gray!40, ->")
tikz.line((0, -5), (0, 5), options="Gray!40, ->")
# Ellipse
ellipse = tikz.ellipse(
    (0, 0), 4, 3, options="fill=ProcessBlue!70, opacity=0.4", action="filldraw"
)
# Labels
h_line = tikz.line((0, 0), (ellipse.x_axis, 0), options="thick, dashed, ->")
v_line = tikz.line((0, 0), (0, ellipse.y_axis), options="thick, dashed, ->")
tikz.node(h_line.midpoint, options="below", text="Major")
tikz.node(v_line.midpoint, options="left", text="Minor")