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Re: Venn diagrams?

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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:54 AM, dantimatter <google@dantimatter.com> wrote:

> Is there a nice and easy way to make pretty Venn diagrams with
> Mathematica, where the areas of the circles and intersecting regions
> are to scale?

A student asked me how to *easily* generate Venn diagrams for a
presentation.  I'm actually fairly adept at generating various images
with Mathematica but was a bit busy and turned to Wolfram|Alpha.  The
results were pretty nice.  In V8, you might just try the following:

wa = WolframAlpha[
  "A intersect B union C intersect D",
   {{"VennDiagram", 1}, "Content"}]

This generates a nice picture.  Although I can't figure out a way to
get the code for the picture, you can manipulate it fairly easily.
Using this, I performed the following silliness:

g = Graphics @@ First[Cases[wa,
     _GraphicsBox, Infinity]];
g = DeleteCases[g, _InsetBox, Infinity];
pos = Position[g, _RGBColor, Infinity];
g = MapAt[ColorData["StarryNightColors"][0] &,
   g, pos[[{7}]]];
g = MapAt[ColorData["StarryNightColors"][1] &,
   g, pos[[{1, 4}]]];
g = MapAt[ColorData["StarryNightColors"][0.5] &,
  g, pos[[{2, 3, 5, 6}]]];
Show[g, ImageSize -> 500]


Of course, there's nothing like full programmatic control and I'm not
sure that this can meet your proportionality requirements.  But it's
pretty easy!

Mark McClure

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