On Wednesday 30 May 2007 02:50, William Stein wrote: > > * Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/) (GPL) > > Asymptote particularly might be interesting if you eventually want to do > > diagrams (2d or 3d) in SAGE. > > This Asymptote program is absolutely fascinating!! I've never heard of > it. I'm extremely excited. Thanks for making me aware of this. I really > like the sound of this "Asymptote is a powerful script-based vector > graphics language for technical drawings, inspired by MetaPost > but with an improved C++-like > syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of > typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text."
Asymptote does look pretty exciting. I'd say the one big downside is that they invented their own language. While the language looks like C++ and the snippets appear to utilize a wide range of language features, I'm a bit suspicious that a roll-your-own language is going to work out in the long run. This pdf has lots of code snippets in it: http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/intro.pdf It appears it's written in C++ and their own language. My personal inclination would be to believe that we would want to write python bindings for it replacing the custom language. It seems it could be a big job (although not insurmountable). -- Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
