AsyPlots.jl

Introduction

AsyPlots is a Julia package for creating figures in Asymptote. Asymptote is a mature language for technical drawing in two and three dimensions. This package provides access to

• 2D vector graphics and high-quality, ray-traced 3D graphics

• LaTeX-rendered labels in 2D and 3D

• An OpenGL renderer for interacting with 3D figures

• Easily customizable colors and arrows

• Convenience functions for line graphs and surface plots, with less of a time-to-first-plot penalty than some other packages

• An environment designed for working directly with graphics primitives (points, paths, polygons, circles, parametric surfaces) in natural coordinates

• in-line plotting in IJulia and Juno's plot pane

• Options to save output as asy, eps, pdf, svg, or png

• An alternative Cairo backend, for speed

Installation

AsyPlots requires Asymptote, which you might already have as a part of your TeX installation (run asy --version from the command line to check). If you want to use the Cairo backend, install Cairo.jl via Pkg.add(Cairo).

Examples

using AsyPlots
n = 250; srand(1)
A = [(x,y) == (0,0) ? 0 : 1/(x^2+y^2) for x=0:n-1,y=0:n-1]
B = randn(n,n)
plot(real(fft(A.*B)))

x = cumsum(rand(-1:1,n))
y = cumsum(rand(-1:1,n))
Plot(Path(x,y;color="White"),
     bgcolor="Black",
     axispen="Red",
     axes=true,
     axisarrow=Arrow())