Reverse clipping

Sometimes, we may want the opposite of clipping – instead of cutting away everything that’s not in our clipping area, we would only cut out that part inside a particular area.

First, let’s look at regular clipping again. This time, we will color a different segment of our pair of intersecting rings from Figure 7.11, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 7.16 – Another segment to fill

The code is a straightforward exercise of what we already know. We will choose the smaller circle on the left as a clipping path and draw the right ring. The code is as follows:

\begin{tikzpicture}[even odd rule]
  \clip (-1,0) circle (1.2);
  \fill[orange] (1,0) circle (1.2) (1,0) circle (2);
\end{tikzpicture}

Now to our challenge, coloring the other part of the right ring, as follows:

Figure 7.17 – Another segment to fill

To also practice limiting the clipping...