Version 1.81 of Asymptote

Release Notes: A boolean targetsize option can be used to draw 3D labels with the apparent size they would have on the target plane. The camera adjustments were fixed; the autoadjust flag is respected. Missing path3 functions such as endpoint were added. The doubleclick timeout under Windows was fixed. A ConTeXT font bug workaround is illustrated in contextfonts.asy. File associations are now used under Windows for psviewer, pdfviewer, display, and animate. Single quotation marks are now allowed in filenames. The lmfit example illustrates Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least-squares fitting.

Other releases

  •  17 Nov 2011 02:00

Release Notes: A compilation problem under Mac OS X was fixed.

  •  16 Nov 2011 20:25

Release Notes: Billboard interaction is now disabled for offscreen rendering. A markthin marker with opacity thinning has been implemented. The copy, map, and sequence functions have been generalized to arbitrary depths. Asymptote can now be compiled as a shared library. A tuple operator has been added. The draw(revolution) function now defers drawing until the final camera position is known. Nonrendered preview images can now be generated for fitted pictures. Jacobi elliptic functions have been implemented. A quick reference card has been added. Compilation and static initialization issues under Mac OS X Lion have been addressed.

  •  19 Jun 2011 21:18

Release Notes: Compilation and installation issues were addressed.

  •  19 Jun 2011 07:27

Release Notes: Minor compilation issues were addressed.

Release Notes: A new off-screen (software) 3D rendering option supports rendering on machines that are remote or lack a working video graphics card. Shifted pens now work correctly. The handling of whitespace in word mode file reads was fixed. A transpose argument was added to the pen function image facility, for consistency with the other image functions. The limit calculation of parabola and hyperbola was fixed in the geometry module.

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