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I want to uncover two plots one at a time using a combination of beamer and pgfplots. The MWE below highlights three attempts.

  • The first attempt uses \onslide but doesn't seem to have any noticable effect, the final picture is directly displayed.
  • The second atempt uses \only which sort of works, but since the second plot isn't considered in the bounds for the first plot's creation, we get a jump of some sort.
  • Following this solution I found the idea of visible on style. This looks promising, but it starts with the fill already there. Further it has four slides - which I don't understand why.

So my question is: how can one start with an empty axis and show one step at a time the two graphs and their respective fills.

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{pgfplots}


\tikzset{
    invisible/.style={opacity=0},
    visible on/.style={alt={#1{}{invisible}}},
    alt/.code args={<#1>#2#3}{%
      \alt<#1>{\pgfkeysalso{#2}}{\pgfkeysalso{#3}} % \pgfkeysalso doesn't change the path
    },
  }

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Attempt 1}
\begin{tikzpicture} 
    \begin{axis}
        \onslide<+->{\addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2]{-x+3}\closedcycle;}
        \onslide<+->{\addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2]{x}\closedcycle;}
    \end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Attempt 2}
\begin{tikzpicture} 
    \begin{axis}
        \only<+->{\addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2]{-x+3}\closedcycle;}
        \only<+->{\addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2]{x}\closedcycle;}
    \end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Attempt 3}
\begin{tikzpicture} 
    \begin{axis}
        \addplot[visible on=<+->, black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2]{-x+3}\closedcycle;
        \addplot[visible on=<+->, black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2]{x}\closedcycle;
    \end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{frame}

\end{document}
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Geoff
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2 Answers2

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Your Attempt 3 works if you put visible on=<+-> after the fill opacity option. The reason is that, in your MWE, the definition of visible on sets opacity=0, but this is overridden by fill opacity=0.2, which comes later. That's why the fills are already there, while the border lines are not.

MWE

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\tikzset{
    invisible/.style={opacity=0},
    visible on/.style={alt={#1{}{invisible}}},
    alt/.code args={<#1>#2#3}{%
      \alt<#1>{\pgfkeysalso{#2}}{\pgfkeysalso{#3}} % \pgfkeysalso doesn't change the path
    },
  }
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Attempt 3}
\begin{tikzpicture} 
    \begin{axis}
        \addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2,visible on=<+->]{-x+3}\closedcycle;
        \addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2,visible on=<+->]{x}\closedcycle;
    \end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Output

enter image description here

Herr K.
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  • If the figure has legends that correspond to each curve all legends appear simultaneously in the begining – aaragon Jun 08 '17 at 11:17
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Here's one possibility using your approach with \only and controlling domain and ymin for both plots:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Attempt 1}
\begin{tikzpicture} 
    \begin{axis}[ymin=-6]
        \only<+->{\addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2,domain=-5:5]{-x+3}\closedcycle;}
        \only<+->{\addplot[black, fill=red, fill opacity=0.2,domain=-5:5]{x}\closedcycle;}
    \end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The result:

enter image description here

Gonzalo Medina
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