Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pentagram in tikzpicture

[another_texie]

Hi, does anyone have code for a pentagram in tikzpicture?
Thanks very much for any help.

[esdd]

A simple example is

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\documentclass[tikz,margin=5mm]{standalone}

\newcommand\Radius{2}
\begin{document}
\tikz\draw(90-144:\Radius)--(90:\Radius)--(90+144:\Radius)--
          (90-72:\Radius)--(90+72:\Radius)--cycle;
\end{document}

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Best regards
Elke

[another_texie]

Hi Elke,

That's perfect.

Thanks very much.

[andreafc]

Hi Elke,

thank you for this nice solution. However I'm confused about where the coordinates start, or basically which would be point 0,0 as center of the circle. If I write your code twice in a row, I get another pentagram next to the first one, but I can't make sense of how tikz decides where to move the center from one pentagram to the next one. Apparently it's not the last point of "cycle" and not the point before that.

Can you point me to a tutorial on this or any manual page or something?

Thank you.

AC

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi AC,

(0,0) is the center. Each image has certain dimensions. The images are simply placed next to each other, if you repeat it, no matter where (0,0) is.

Manual with tutorials included: tikz. Or type texdoc tikz or texdoc pgf at the command prompt of your computer.

Stefan