How to fill a region bounded by a character and a graphic object with a color?

Question

There are 5 white regions bounded by the ellipse and character R as shown in the following figure.

I want to fill EACH of these regions with a UNIQUE/DIFFERENT/DISTINGUISHABLE color.

How to do this in either PSTricks or TikZ?

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\documentclass[border=0pt]{standalone}

\usepackage{pstricks}

\begin{document}
    \begin{pspicture}[showgrid=false](4,6)
        \begin{psclip}{\psellipse[linestyle=none](2,3)(2,3)}
            \rput(2,3){\psscalebox{21}{R}}
        \end{psclip}
        \psellipse(2,3)(2,3)
    \end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Please don't suggest me to replace the character border with a new object by tracing it such as using \pscurve, \psbezier, or the like.
Please don't suggest me to use a tool provided by vector or raster graphics editors as shown in the following screenshot.

Do you want a solution for this specific R clipped by this ellipse? Or do you want a solution for any character from any font clipped by any closed curve? — Paul Gaborit, Jul 20 '12 at 12:18
@HiggsBoson: So, use Inkscape with Latin Modern font to produce this particular case and to fill each of these five regions. — Paul Gaborit, Jul 20 '12 at 12:24
Do you want different colors for each region? Or the same in all? — egreg, Jul 20 '12 at 13:27
@HiggsBoson Please, change "a unique" with "the same", if this is what you want. — egreg, Jul 20 '12 at 13:37
There are two different version of the Paint Bucket Tool. The classical version is a bitmap tool (like with Photoshop, Gimp, Paint, etc.). But there is also a vector version like with Inkscape (and may be Illusrator)... — Paul Gaborit, Jul 20 '12 at 14:08
Do you have an actual application where you need this, or is it a purely academic question? — Jake, Jul 20 '12 at 15:01
@HiggsBoson: So you only have to do this once? In that case, wouldn't Altermundus solution be the most pragmatic (and therefore most time/money efficient)? — Jake, Jul 20 '12 at 15:05
Look at my answer about Are there examples written in PSTricks and they cannot be done using TikZ? and mainly comment by Andrew Stacey... — Paul Gaborit, Jul 20 '12 at 16:44

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 20 '12 at 16:22

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You need to use a grid

  \draw[help lines,step=.2] (-1.4,-2) grid (1.4,2);

To get

 \documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
 \usepackage{tikz}

 \begin{document}
 \begin{tikzpicture}
 \begin{scope}
     \draw[ultra thick] (0,0) ellipse[ x radius=1.2cm,y radius=2cm]  ;
     \clip (0,0) ellipse [x radius=1.2cm,y radius=2cm]  ;
     \fill[green] (0,0) ellipse [x radius=1.2cm,y radius=2cm]  ;      
     \fill[orange] (-1.4,-2) rectangle (-0.8,2);
     \fill[blue] (-1.4,1.5) -- (0.2,1.5) -- (1.2,0.8) -- (1.2,2) --(-1.2,2) -- cycle;
     \fill[yellow] (-0.75,1.5) -- (0.2,1.5) -- (0.8,1) -- (0.6,0.2) --(0.2,0) -- (-0.75,0) -- cycle; 
     \fill[magenta] (0.8,1) -- (0.6,0.2) --(0.2,0) -- (0.8,-0.8) -- (0.8,-1.4) -- (1.4,-1.4) -- (1.4,1) --cycle; 
     \node[scale=12,inner sep=0pt] {R};    
 \end{scope}
% \draw[help lines,step=.2] (-1.4,-2) grid (1.4,2);    
 \end{tikzpicture}
 \end{document}

With the grid it's easy to define the five areas:

enter image description here

edited Jul 20 '12 at 16:22

kiss my armpit

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answered Jul 20 '12 at 13:34

Alain Matthes

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Hmm, sorry I didn't see your answer for one hour. I was too busy with painting apparently. – percusse Jul 20 '12 at 14:28
@HiggsBoson No I extract the points with the grid – Alain Matthes Jul 20 '12 at 14:32
@percusse I delete my answer during some minutes because I used only one color. I was busy like you with painting ! :) – Alain Matthes Jul 20 '12 at 14:34
I don't know but I'm not very optimistic – Alain Matthes Jul 20 '12 at 15:06
@HiggsBoson: may be with some tricks like Outlining (filling) glyph outline with text in TikZ – Paul Gaborit Jul 20 '12 at 16:04
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@HiggsBoson You get a problem because you forgot [11pt]You need to use \documentclass[11pt]{standalone}. – Alain Matthes Jul 20 '12 at 16:19

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