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mcnees / graph paper.tex
Created March 13, 2021 20:33
A .tex file that uses pgf/tikz to create a variety of graph papers.
%%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
%% Make your own quadrille, graph, hex, etc paper!
%% Uses the pgf/TikZ package for LaTeX, which should be part of
%% any modern TeX installation.
%%
%% All the values here are hardcoded for letter size paper.
%%
%% This is the original standalone .tex file. The project is in the
%% process of being converted to a LaTeX package.
%%
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mcnees / PoincareUHP.tex
Created December 1, 2020 17:29
Diagram of geodesics in the Poincare Upper Half-Plane
%% --------------------------------------------------------------
%% Code for the diagram in a twitter thread about Lobachevsky.
%% Tweet: https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1333812403218354177
%% --------------------------------------------------------------
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
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mcnees / AlignmentGrid.tex
Created September 14, 2019 20:14
A 3x3 alignment grid for doing the meme
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
% Some colors I like. The first six are modified versions of colors from
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mcnees / ref.bib
Last active August 31, 2023 16:38
BibTeX ref for http://jacobi.luc.edu/Useful.html
@misc{FormulasWebsite,
title = {Conventions, Definitions, Identities, and Formulas},
howpublished = "\url{http://jacobi.luc.edu/Useful.html#Variations}",
author = {McNees, Robert},
year = {2019},
note = {Accessed on August 1, 2022}
}
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mcnees / apsrev_cite_website.tex
Created September 9, 2019 14:33 — forked from tdwiser/apsrev_cite_website.tex
\documentclass{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@unpublished{mcnees,
author = {{McNees}, Robert},
title = {Conventions, Definitions, Identities, and Formulas},
url = {http://jacobi.luc.edu/Useful.html},
note = {{http://jacobi.luc.edu/Useful.html}}
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mcnees / Twin.tex
Created November 26, 2017 18:54
Visual resolution of the twin paradox in special relativity
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot}
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mcnees / BarnAndPole.tex
Created November 26, 2017 18:47
A visual resolution of the barn-and-pole paradox of special relativity.
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
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mcnees / RigidRocket.tex
Created October 26, 2017 21:22
Draw a spacetime diagram showing an accelerating rocket with constant proper length.
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
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mcnees / milkshakeduck.tex
Created September 18, 2017 20:05
Milkshake Duck in LaTeX
% Requires latest version of tikzducks from github
% https://github.com/samcarter8/tikzducks
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usepackage{tikzducks}
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mcnees / Example5.tex
Created September 14, 2017 02:40
Shaded cylinder in perspective
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
% Some colors I like. The first six are modified versions of colors from