Asymptote

Asymptote is the LaTeX for three dimensional graphics. It creates flat (bidimensional) and three dimensional graphics that can be inserted in a LaTeX/PDF document. The results are consistent with the LaTeX typography and 3D graphics can be freely rotated with Acrobat Reader.

Install

From SVN

Check out from SVN server:

mkdir ~/soft
cd ~/soft
svn co http://asymptote.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/asymptote/trunk/asymptote
cd asymptote/

First you need these tools: autoheader (autoconf), zlib, fftw3 (optional), freeglut, bison, flex, texi2dvi (texinfo). They are installed in most systems

[in ubuntu] sudo apt-get install autoconf libz-dev libfftw3-dev freeglut3-dev bison

and download

wget http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc-7.1.tar.gz

Then

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --bindir=$HOME/usr/bin$CLUSTER
make all 
make install

(3 minutes, 46 seconds with 'make all -j 4')

Test

~/usr/bin/asy 
Welcome to Asymptote version 2.09svn-r5246 (to view the manual, type help)
> 

Add ~/usr/bin$CLUSTER to the PATH