Asymptote - Application

Asymptote is an open source application created in 2004 by Andy Hammerlindl and John C. Bowman and Tom Prince.

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Asymptote is a descriptive vector graphics language — developed by Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman (University of Alberta), and Tom Prince — which provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Asymptote runs on all major platforms (Unix, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows). Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of Asymptote happened in University of Alberta
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 23 users using Asymptote in 25 repos on GitHub
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See also: (7 related languages) Unix, LaTeX, PostScript, PDF, SVG, Tex, Python

Example from Riju:

write("Hello, world!");

Example from Wikipedia:

import graph;
import settings;
outformat="pdf";

size(300,300);

// Function.
real[] x1 = {-1.5,0};
real[] y1 = {0,0};
real[] x2 = {0,1.5};
real[] y2 = {1,1};
draw(graph(x1,y1),red+2);
draw(graph(x2,y2),red+2);

draw((0,0)--(0,1),red+1.5+linetype("4 4"));
fill( circle((0,1),0.035), red);
filldraw( circle((0,0),0.03), white, red+1.5);

// Axes.
xaxis( Label("$xTEMPLATEquot;), Ticks(new real[]{-1,-0.5,0.5,1}), Arrow);
yaxis( Label("$yTEMPLATEquot;), Ticks(new real[]{0.5,1}), Arrow, ymin=-0.18, ymax=1.25);
// Origin.
labelx("$OTEMPLATEquot;,0,SW);

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