#113 PGF & TikZ makes perfect graphics, but...

[hpvd]

PGF & TikZ makes perfect graphics with awesome precision and details! Many many thanks to the contributors!!

In some cases it is also very good to uses some less perfect graphics, e.g. when talking about ideas or simply if one wants to give things a more "human made", sketch like apperace.

In the web world there is a new js libary which do this in a great simple way (on svg base)

Just have a look:
https://github.com/pshihn/rough

more examples:
-> https://beta.observablehq.com/@bumbeishvili/trying-out-rough
-> https://bl.ocks.org/aaizemberg/b403ba342cf0cd32d3e8a77174dcf8a0

=> What do you think, wouldn't this be also intersting for latex world (PGF, TikZ, pgfplots..) ?

Best regards

[Ignasi]

Probably not so easy like with mentioned library, but TikZ already can provide similar results:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39296/simulating-hand-drawn-lines

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74878/create-xkcd-style-diagram-in-tex

[hpvd]

@ignasi
many thanks for pointing to these approach and examples!!

Some look nice, some relatively "basic" from result site and relatively complicate from usesage site.

Maybe one could learn/adapt some of the simplicity the mentoined js libary has.

[hpvd]

just a detail: here is a the documantation how to convert an existing svg to render with rough: https://github.com/pshihn/rough/issues/66

[Stefan Pinnow]

For details see https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/issues/637