Asymptote

Asymptote is the LaTeX for three dimensional graphics. It creates flat (bidimensional) and live three dimensional graphics that can be inserted in a LaTeX/PDF document.

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. 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
make all 
make install

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