[OS X TeX] Building Asymptote with OpenGL support

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
ome hacking.
>
> After this next version 1.50 prerelease compiled without
> straightforwardly and the beautiful OpenGL renderer runs well.
>
> I hope that very soon it will be on the sourceforge. Actually I think
> that the svn version already compiles this way
>

Well, it is on sourceforge official! On one page it says 1.49 but on
the download it is 1.50

Compiles well... (usual mantra ./configure, make all, sudo make
install) at least on MacBookPro under 10.4.11

asy -V  /usr/local/share/doc/asymptote/examples/cube.asy

or

asy -V /usr/local/share/doc/asymptote/examples/teapot.asy


Try contextual menus (either opt-click and you will see it). Export
(e) works only if original command is from X11 window as it needs to
launch gv.

One can avoid clicking and get menu actions under option-x (etc commans)

Also try antialiasing (new feature)

asy -V  -vv /usr/local/share/doc/asymptote/examples/cube.asy


Enjoi! Victor

PS In some time in the feature J.Bowman will publish Honors Calculus
with many embedded 3d models (actually attached: since going to page
with 3d model is causing a delay with the loading, I suggested to put
on the page only poster double clicking which opens attached pdf with
embedded 3d model;

PPS

Now: install puts

/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/asymptote

and

/usr/local/share/doc/asymptote/asymptote.pdf


I suggested to the author to put

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/asymptote/

and

make symlink

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc/latex/asymptote ->
/usr/local/share/doc/asymptote/


(while I don't think that it is a wise idea to move

/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/asymptote

I definitely recommend making symlink to enable %texdoc asymptote
afte texhash

Victor





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Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
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