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pgfplots: How to draw a tangent graph below two others?
The Next CEO of Stack Overflowplotting two time series with boundsGrouped bar chartHow do i get the x axis on top but keep a line on the bottomHow to prevent rounded and duplicated tick labels in pgfplots with fixed precision?How to hide empty (value 0) ybars with pgfplots?Show mark labels near marks and not centered in ybar interaval graphDrawing rectilinear curves in Tikz, aka an Etch-a-Sketch drawingpgfplots: percentage in matrix plotHow to draw a square and its diagonals with arrows?PGFPlots - Fill area between two curves
Assumed I want to draw three simple graphs based on the following illustration:

How can I plot those three graphs? I've tried to create something like this:
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument
Screenshot of the current state:

Description of the issue:
However, I don't get the point on how to figure out the function of the third graph as well as how to clip the graphs in x and y direction to align them centered in the plot. It is not necessary to be completely precise, the accuracy of my upper template will be fine enough.
How to do that?
tikz-pgf pgfplots plot graphs polynomials
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Assumed I want to draw three simple graphs based on the following illustration:

How can I plot those three graphs? I've tried to create something like this:
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument
Screenshot of the current state:

Description of the issue:
However, I don't get the point on how to figure out the function of the third graph as well as how to clip the graphs in x and y direction to align them centered in the plot. It is not necessary to be completely precise, the accuracy of my upper template will be fine enough.
How to do that?
tikz-pgf pgfplots plot graphs polynomials
Well, and the formula of the third graph is? Please explain your issue better ...
– Kurt
2 hours ago
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– Kurt
2 hours ago
I accept the Kurt's comment.
– Sebastiano
2 hours ago
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Assumed I want to draw three simple graphs based on the following illustration:

How can I plot those three graphs? I've tried to create something like this:
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument
Screenshot of the current state:

Description of the issue:
However, I don't get the point on how to figure out the function of the third graph as well as how to clip the graphs in x and y direction to align them centered in the plot. It is not necessary to be completely precise, the accuracy of my upper template will be fine enough.
How to do that?
tikz-pgf pgfplots plot graphs polynomials
Assumed I want to draw three simple graphs based on the following illustration:

How can I plot those three graphs? I've tried to create something like this:
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument
Screenshot of the current state:

Description of the issue:
However, I don't get the point on how to figure out the function of the third graph as well as how to clip the graphs in x and y direction to align them centered in the plot. It is not necessary to be completely precise, the accuracy of my upper template will be fine enough.
How to do that?
tikz-pgf pgfplots plot graphs polynomials
tikz-pgf pgfplots plot graphs polynomials
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Well, and the formula of the third graph is? Please explain your issue better ...
– Kurt
2 hours ago
2
@close-voter: Please explain in a comment your reason for voting to close!
– Kurt
2 hours ago
I accept the Kurt's comment.
– Sebastiano
2 hours ago
add a comment |
Well, and the formula of the third graph is? Please explain your issue better ...
– Kurt
2 hours ago
2
@close-voter: Please explain in a comment your reason for voting to close!
– Kurt
2 hours ago
I accept the Kurt's comment.
– Sebastiano
2 hours ago
Well, and the formula of the third graph is? Please explain your issue better ...
– Kurt
2 hours ago
Well, and the formula of the third graph is? Please explain your issue better ...
– Kurt
2 hours ago
2
2
@close-voter: Please explain in a comment your reason for voting to close!
– Kurt
2 hours ago
@close-voter: Please explain in a comment your reason for voting to close!
– Kurt
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I accept the Kurt's comment.
– Sebastiano
2 hours ago
I accept the Kurt's comment.
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You can use the function f1*f2/(f1+f2) to get something like what you describe. To make the code a bit clearer I defined the functions f1 and f2.
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotsset%
 compat=1.12,
 /pgf/declare function=f1(x)=exp(3*x);,
 /pgf/declare function=f2(x)=-exp(3*x)+20;,
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f2(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)+f2(x));
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

If you want the function to follow more closely you can use sqrt(f1^2*f2^2/(f1^2+f2^2). Then replace the third plot with
addplot+[no marks, samples=100] sqrt(f1(x)*f1(x)*f2(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)*f1(x)+f2(x)*f2(x)));
to get

The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Are you looking for the minimum? (I shifted the plot a bit but you can of course undo the shift.)
documentclass[border=3.14mm,tikz]standalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotssetcompat=1.16
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=6,smooth]
 min(exp(3*x),(-exp(3*x)+20))-pi/2;
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
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You can use the function f1*f2/(f1+f2) to get something like what you describe. To make the code a bit clearer I defined the functions f1 and f2.
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotsset%
 compat=1.12,
 /pgf/declare function=f1(x)=exp(3*x);,
 /pgf/declare function=f2(x)=-exp(3*x)+20;,
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f2(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)+f2(x));
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

If you want the function to follow more closely you can use sqrt(f1^2*f2^2/(f1^2+f2^2). Then replace the third plot with
addplot+[no marks, samples=100] sqrt(f1(x)*f1(x)*f2(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)*f1(x)+f2(x)*f2(x)));
to get

The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
You can use the function f1*f2/(f1+f2) to get something like what you describe. To make the code a bit clearer I defined the functions f1 and f2.
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotsset%
 compat=1.12,
 /pgf/declare function=f1(x)=exp(3*x);,
 /pgf/declare function=f2(x)=-exp(3*x)+20;,
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f2(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)+f2(x));
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

If you want the function to follow more closely you can use sqrt(f1^2*f2^2/(f1^2+f2^2). Then replace the third plot with
addplot+[no marks, samples=100] sqrt(f1(x)*f1(x)*f2(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)*f1(x)+f2(x)*f2(x)));
to get

The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
You can use the function f1*f2/(f1+f2) to get something like what you describe. To make the code a bit clearer I defined the functions f1 and f2.
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotsset%
 compat=1.12,
 /pgf/declare function=f1(x)=exp(3*x);,
 /pgf/declare function=f2(x)=-exp(3*x)+20;,
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f2(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)+f2(x));
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

If you want the function to follow more closely you can use sqrt(f1^2*f2^2/(f1^2+f2^2). Then replace the third plot with
addplot+[no marks, samples=100] sqrt(f1(x)*f1(x)*f2(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)*f1(x)+f2(x)*f2(x)));
to get

You can use the function f1*f2/(f1+f2) to get something like what you describe. To make the code a bit clearer I defined the functions f1 and f2.
documentclassstandalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotsset%
 compat=1.12,
 /pgf/declare function=f1(x)=exp(3*x);,
 /pgf/declare function=f2(x)=-exp(3*x)+20;,
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f2(x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] f1(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)+f2(x));
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

If you want the function to follow more closely you can use sqrt(f1^2*f2^2/(f1^2+f2^2). Then replace the third plot with
addplot+[no marks, samples=100] sqrt(f1(x)*f1(x)*f2(x)*f2(x)/(f1(x)*f1(x)+f2(x)*f2(x)));
to get

answered 2 hours ago
StefanHStefanH
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The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
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The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
The lower one looks perfect, thank you very much!!
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Are you looking for the minimum? (I shifted the plot a bit but you can of course undo the shift.)
documentclass[border=3.14mm,tikz]standalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotssetcompat=1.16
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=6,smooth]
 min(exp(3*x),(-exp(3*x)+20))-pi/2;
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Are you looking for the minimum? (I shifted the plot a bit but you can of course undo the shift.)
documentclass[border=3.14mm,tikz]standalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotssetcompat=1.16
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=6,smooth]
 min(exp(3*x),(-exp(3*x)+20))-pi/2;
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Are you looking for the minimum? (I shifted the plot a bit but you can of course undo the shift.)
documentclass[border=3.14mm,tikz]standalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotssetcompat=1.16
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=6,smooth]
 min(exp(3*x),(-exp(3*x)+20))-pi/2;
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

Are you looking for the minimum? (I shifted the plot a bit but you can of course undo the shift.)
documentclass[border=3.14mm,tikz]standalone
usepackagepgfplots
pgfplotssetcompat=1.16
begindocument
 begintikzpicture
 beginaxis[domain=0:1]
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] exp(3*x);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=100] (-exp(3*x)+20);
 addplot+[no marks, samples=6,smooth]
 min(exp(3*x),(-exp(3*x)+20))-pi/2;
 endaxis
 endtikzpicture
enddocument

answered 2 hours ago
marmotmarmot
113k5145275
113k5145275
Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
Thank you very much marmot! The user StefanH has also posted a great approach which looks very smooth - I hope you are not disappointed if I choose his option as an answer?
– Dave
1 hour ago
add a comment |
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Well, and the formula of the third graph is? Please explain your issue better ...
– Kurt
2 hours ago
2
@close-voter: Please explain in a comment your reason for voting to close!
– Kurt
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I accept the Kurt's comment.
– Sebastiano
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