From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: OT: Asymptote in Context
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:51:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141228175128.4b9a56b9@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsbqmJVxuEZhc0DyXahdZ8PuCTC=cESP-oMWcdf51Vzjiw@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry, but I fail to see what the 3D aspect of this drawing brings to
anything, other than to impress the gallery and look spiffy.
I guess that we belong now to a society without any imagination,
requiring lots of colors, shadowing (and even animation) in order to
get an idea across...
(At least make use of the third dimension to describe SOMETHING if you
are going to include it.)
Alan
(who is being chastised by Hans for attempting to plot 100k data
points.)
P.S. the green y-axis looks really odd in your example.
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:04:55 +0100
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Aditya,
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Context NTG wrote:
> >
> >> Could anybody explain how to use Asymptote in ConTeXt with the
> >> filter module.
> >
> > Can you post a minimal asymptote file and how it shoud be processed
> > via the command line?
>
> I have no time to create a nice minimal example, but here's an ugly
> non-minimal example which should at least enable you to test the
> interaction with the filter module.
>
> I also added one ConTeXt-specific command while trying to make math
> fonts work properly, just replace "lucidaot" with another font in case
> you don't have that one installed.
>
> You can run the example with
> asy -tex context cylinder.asy
>
> (Maybe it's possible to set the tex engine inside the file as well.)
>
>
> Bonus points if you can get PRC to work properly before TL 2015. Or if
> you can make the file print properly from OS X without using Acrobat
> or ghostscript/CUPS. Preview.app "forgets" to print the (smoothly
> shaded) cylinder for example.
>
> Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-28 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-24 21:41 Context NTG
2014-12-28 7:21 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-12-28 11:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
2014-12-28 16:51 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2014-12-28 17:07 ` OT: " luigi scarso
2014-12-29 15:03 ` Alan BRASLAU
2014-12-29 15:27 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2014-12-28 18:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
2015-01-02 22:14 ` Context NTG
2015-01-20 3:39 ` Aditya Mahajan
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