Congratulations! I’m in today’s lucky 10,000 for learning that Asymptote exists. Perhaps due to my not being much of a mathematician, I didn’t understand it very clearly from the README… but the examples comparing code to its output make sense! Comparing your examples to the kind of things Asymptote likes to show off (https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/), I see why you might have needed to build the additional tooling.
I don’t think you necessarily have to compare smoothmanifold to a JavaScript framework to get the point across—it seems to be an abstraction layer that allows one to describe a drawn image in slightly more general terms than Asymptote supports.
I admire how you’re investing so much effort to use your talents to help others.
Thank you for your kind words! Unfortunately, Asymptote doesn’t really have much of a community development platform, but I’ll be trying to make smoothmanifold part of the official project in some way or another. Right now the development is so fast that the README is actually out of date… gotta fix that. So far, though, my talents seem less to help others and more to serve as a pleasurable pastime :)
I’m also glad that another person discovered Asymptote and liked it—it’s a language that I cannot stop to admire for the graphical functionality, ease of image creation (pdf’s, jpeg’s, svg’s, etc., all with the same interface), and at the same time amazing programming potential (you can redefine any builtin function, for example, and Asymptote will carry on with your definition)
Congratulations! I’m in today’s lucky 10,000 for learning that Asymptote exists. Perhaps due to my not being much of a mathematician, I didn’t understand it very clearly from the README… but the examples comparing code to its output make sense! Comparing your examples to the kind of things Asymptote likes to show off (https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/), I see why you might have needed to build the additional tooling.
I don’t think you necessarily have to compare smoothmanifold to a JavaScript framework to get the point across—it seems to be an abstraction layer that allows one to describe a drawn image in slightly more general terms than Asymptote supports.
I admire how you’re investing so much effort to use your talents to help others.
Thank you for your kind words! Unfortunately, Asymptote doesn’t really have much of a community development platform, but I’ll be trying to make
smoothmanifoldpart of the official project in some way or another. Right now the development is so fast that the README is actually out of date… gotta fix that. So far, though, my talents seem less to help others and more to serve as a pleasurable pastime :)I’m also glad that another person discovered Asymptote and liked it—it’s a language that I cannot stop to admire for the graphical functionality, ease of image creation (pdf’s, jpeg’s, svg’s, etc., all with the same interface), and at the same time amazing programming potential (you can redefine any builtin function, for example, and Asymptote will carry on with your definition)