Re: [NTG-context] Status of Asymptote

Dear Gavin,

Le 6 déc. 2021 à 10:11, Gavin via ntg-context a écrit :

Hi Alex,

I don’t know the status of Asymptote. I am using TikZ and pgfplots for 3D, with satisfactory results (example below). However, it is slow, so use the buffer mechanism to prevent redrawing with every run.

TIkZ/pgfplots is the best short term solution for diagrams I need right now. I am concerned that TikZ will eventually not work with ConTeXt, so for a long term solution I am trying to make diagrams with Metapost, using Lua to do the heavy computational work. This is not easy, but the diagrams are super fast, and I think they will always work.

I would be very interested to see an example of a Metafun drawing made with the help of LuaTeX to speed up some calculations. Thanks !

Hope that helps. Gavin

Fabrice.