ASY Library

Library of utility functions for Asymptote, designed to be included as git submodule in Asymptote-based projects.

Pictures

Headers with a single picture drawing(<params>) function, producing a parametric picture. They can be used in external asymptote files through code such as:

access "path/to/asy-library/mypicture.asy" as mypicture;

add(shift(x, y) * mypicture.drawing(params...));

Structures

More complex tools, for drawing structured objects. It includes:

• graph.asy for drawing graphs;
• layout.asy for auto-placement of elements in layouts and drawing block-style programs.

Tools

Helper scripts that can be useful in expanding the library or otherwise manipulating asymptote files.

SVG to ASY

Converts an SVG file into Asymptote code, to allow parametrization of existing third-party pictures. Picture must be already in SVG format: you may vectorize a bitmap through tools such as svgtrace. It is strongly recommended to tweak the SVG file with Inkscape first, in particular using its "path > simplify" tool to reduce the number of points in the SVG hence the size of the translated code. Then you can convert it to asymptote code through:

tools/svg_to_asy.py -c 100 path/to/file.svg > path/to/file.asy