Adding two circles in latex?

Question

I want to add to intersecting circles together in latex and remove that area from an even larger circle. My code is as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikzsymbols}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,backgrounds,patterns}

\title{picture}
\author{john }
\date{April 2016}

\begin{document}


\def\cutThis{(3.5,0.7) circle (1cm) (5,0) circle (1cm)}

\begin{tikzpicture}

\fill[yellow, even odd rule] (4,0) circle (2cm) \cutThis;

\end{tikzpicture}


\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\end{document}

However this isnt working as the area where the two circles intersect is yellow. It would be great if someone could help me out.

Welcome! Please complete your code so that we can compile it. — cfr, Apr 21 '16 at 23:36

cfr · Answer 1 · 2016-04-22T01:56:29.210

The easiest method would just be to fill the circles with white after filling the yellow circle. If that's not an option, things are less straightforward but the following more-or-less works. That is, it works but you may get artefacts, depending on your viewer. (I do as you see in the screenshot.)

\documentclass[border=10pt,tikz,multi]{standalone}

% code for inverse clipping from Paul Gaborit's answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/59168/

\tikzset{%
  invclip/.style={%
    clip,insert path={%
      {%
        [reset cm]
        (-16383.99999pt,-16383.99999pt) rectangle (16383.99999pt,16383.99999pt)
      }%
    }%
  },
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \begin{scope}
    \begin{pgfinterruptboundingbox}
      \path[invclip] (3.5,0.7) circle (1cm) (5,0) circle (1cm)  (3.5,0.7) circle (1cm);
    \end{pgfinterruptboundingbox}
    \fill[yellow, even odd rule] (4,0) circle (2cm)  (3.5,0.7) circle (1cm);
  \end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

EDIT

For Venn diagrams, there are some tailor-made packages available which are designed to make this easy. venndiagram is TikZ-based, while venn is based on MetaPost.

Because these are designed for Venn diagrams they do assume that the outermost area is a rectangle. I'm not sure whether this is an issue in this case or not. In any case, here's a couple of examples using the first package to illustrate its use with 2 sets and 3 sets.

\documentclass[border=10pt,tikz,multi]{standalone}
\usepackage{venndiagram}
\begin{document}
\begin{venndiagram2sets}[labelA={}, labelB={}, shade=yellow]
  \fillNotAorB
\end{venndiagram2sets}
\begin{venndiagram3sets}[labelA={}, labelB={}, labelC={}, shade=yellow]
  \fillNotABC
\end{venndiagram3sets}
\end{document}

This produces

and

Adapting the second diagram slightly

\begin{venndiagram3sets}[labelA={}, labelB={}, labelC={}, shade=yellow, tikzoptions={draw=none}]
  \fillNotABC
\end{venndiagram3sets}

we can obtain

thanks alot for your help. What i'm really trying to achieve is a ven diagram where all 3 circles have different shading patterns. The problem is that when I fill the big one with a pattern, it shades the small ones at the same time - so filling with white isn't an option. Is this the simplest way to achieve this? — John, Apr 22 '16 at 00:32
Probably the simplest way would be to use one of the packages available for drawing Venn diagrams ... ;). — cfr, Apr 22 '16 at 00:48
@John For example, venn or venndiagram. The latter was broken, but has probably been fixed by now. — cfr, Apr 22 '16 at 01:40

Adding two circles in latex?

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