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Does anyone have some Tikz code for a human ear? I need it for a picture, where sound is coming from the left an hitting an ear on the right.

Maybe someone had already needed this.

mads
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Not tikz, but...

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,scalerel}
\def\ear{\includegraphics[height=1.8ex]{ear}}
\newcommand\lowparen{\raisebox{\dimexpr-.5\ht\strutbox+.5\dp\strutbox}{)}}
\begin{document}
\scalerel*{%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{2pt}\kern-.1pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{3pt}\kern-.3pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{4pt}\kern-.5pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{5pt}\kern-.7pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{6pt}%
}{X}\ear
\end{document}

enter image description here

or reverse the ear:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,scalerel}
\def\ear{\scalebox{-1}[1]{\includegraphics[height=1.8ex]{ear}}}
\newcommand\lowparen{\raisebox{\dimexpr-.5\ht\strutbox+.5\dp\strutbox}{)}}
\begin{document}
\scalerel*{%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{2pt}\kern-.1pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{3pt}\kern-.3pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{4pt}\kern-.5pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{5pt}\kern-.7pt%
\scaleto{\lowparen}{6pt}%
}{X}\ear
\end{document}

enter image description here

Note: ear.png image obtained from Ear symbol in LaTeX?

enter image description here

Steven B. Segletes
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  • Steven you are great!+1 for your answer. – Sebastiano Oct 04 '17 at 10:46
  • Is there any way to put this into a tikz figure, since I already have a tikzfigure, where I need to insert the ear? – mads Oct 04 '17 at 10:54
  • @mads you could define \def\soundear{\scalerel*{% \scaleto{\lowparen}{2pt}\kern-.1pt% \scaleto{\lowparen}{3pt}\kern-.3pt% \scaleto{\lowparen}{4pt}\kern-.5pt% \scaleto{\lowparen}{5pt}\kern-.7pt% \scaleto{\lowparen}{6pt}% }{X}\ear}. Then, wherever in tikz you would otherwise place a printing character, you could instead place \soundear. – Steven B. Segletes Oct 04 '17 at 10:57
  • I tried this and it didn't work for me. Error message is "file 'ear' not found" – Steven Sagona Jul 06 '21 at 00:06
  • @StevenSagona Let me look further...the code seems to indicate it was part of the dingbat package, but that seems not to me the case. – Steven B. Segletes Jul 06 '21 at 00:29
  • @StevenSagona Download the ear image at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/204012/ear-symbol-in-latex into the ear.png file. – Steven B. Segletes Jul 06 '21 at 00:30