Post #3989047
2026-07-21 12:49 UTC
"You can tell whether the author of a paper is a mathematician or a computer scientist by looking at the direction their trees grow. A computer scientist’s trees will grow downward while a mathematician’s tree will grow upward. Naturally, the correct way is the mathematician’s way..."
https://tikz.dev/tikz-trees
Replies (3)
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@nxskok@cupoftea.social 2026-07-21 15:26
@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz having said that, the *default* in TikZ seems to be for trees to grow downwards.
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@Purplie@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-21 13:22
@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz There once was a Math student, I, Whose tree drawings reached for the sky, But a lifetime programming Left none of them standing And downward they grow, though I trie.
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@zkamvar@hachyderm.io 2026-07-21 13:33
@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz and yet phylogenetic trees grow any which way they please