Draw Regular Polygons in Tikz LaTeX

Draw Regular Polygons in Tikz $LATEX$

Polygons (see more details.) are 2-dimensional shapes. They are made of straight lines, and the shape is "closed" (all the lines connect up). A regular polygon has all angles equal and all sides equal, otherwise it is irregular. Polygons can easily be created in Tikz $LATEX$ and properties of the shapes can be enhanced.

Commands

• \documentclass[margin=5mm]{standalone} --- to create a standalone document with 5 mm on all the sides
• \usepackage{tikz} --- to create Tikzpicture environment
• \usepackage{pgfplots} --- to generate high quality graphs/shapes within $LATEX$
• \usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric} --- to generate regular polygons
• \foreach \i in {3,4,5,6,...,10} --- this is for loop in pgfplots iterating from 3 to 10
• \i --- take value from the array generated in for loop
• blue!\i! --- concentration of blue color
• (4*\i,1) --- polygons are placed at the multiples of 4 separated horizontally when $y=1$ e.g., $(12,1),(16,1)$ and so on...

$LATEX$ Code

\documentclass[margin=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach \i in {3,4,5,6,...,10}
\node[regular polygon,draw,regular polygon sides = \i,fill = blue!\i!,minimum size = 3cm] (p) at (4*\i,1) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


OUTPUT

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