Since each figure is compiled in a separate system process, this method also tends to use less memory. To store the figures in a separate directory named asy , one can define. External Asymptote code can be included with.
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With TikZ it's different. You can define a label in certain kinds of TikZ pictures and reference it in another TikZ picture. This allows you to draw lines from one specific part of a TikZ picture to another part of a TikZ picture or to specific positions of the page centre, north, south west, As another example, you can define the baseline of TikZ pictures so you can align them neatly.
Even if you don't want to draw anything, your LaTeX code can benefit from the package. Joseph Wright has made pgfkeys -style parsing available in class and packages with his pgfopts package. It's difficult to see how your LaTeX programming can benefit from the external asymptote program except by allowing shell escapes, which is asking for troubles.
Another interesting development is TikZ's object oriented programming, which I'd like to explore a bit further when I have more time. With asymptote this is not the case and you have to do extra work to tell asymptote about the definitions of the LaTeX commands. This is really important to me because I frequently use the beamer package in different modes.
Depending on the modes, different fonts are used in the output. With TikZ the font is picked up automatically. Letting asymptote do this requires extra work. Improve this answer. Equally powerful?? I'm not sure. AlainMatthes I am speaking in terms of what they can do, not how they do it. For example, in this sense a Turing machine is equally powerful as the lambda calculus. TikZ can draw curves and a all that's needed for a 2D representation of a 3D picture are curves. AlainMatthes Further to my previous comment.
I mentioned in my answer that Asymptote provides an easier programming environment. I think this answer misses an important point : Asymptote can do some things that tikz cannot see other answers below. And conversely. OK, but you can build examples such that programming time diverges for tikz.
I think this remark, though technically true, might be misunderstood. Show 2 more comments. TikZ always won for me, though it's great that there are alternative ways with Asymptote. I would prefer TikZ for drawing diagrams, graphs, trees, especially when the focus is on typesetting; Asymptote only if heavy math or algorithms are required, which could be when plotting - even then I can use TikZ with Gnuplot. By request, I'm turning my comment into an answer. Compiling the above document gives you these figures: You can do pretty much everything it TikZ although sometimes it gets pretty hairy to get there.
Two examples to illustrate my point: one from TeXample: link When you watch carefully the black volume, you see that it is always behind the other curves, which should not. This might be acceptable there, but more generally it can be a serious drawback.
Small summary based on my recent experience: Tikz : PRO: somehow simpler CON: false 3D, objects are either entirely in the foreground, or entirely in the background Asymptote : PRO: real 3D PRO: both perspective or orthotropic views are possible PRO: possibility to embed 3D objects in pdf with prc CON: rasterizing required CON: rendering sometimes include unwanted black stripes there are some solutions to avoid this, but it slows down the work-flow To make it simple, I would recommend using Tikz and pgfplots as long as it feeds your needs, and swap to asymptote otherwise!
Community Bot 1. What you describe as false 3d is the unfortunate missing feature of z buffering in pgfplots , see also tex. In fact, pgfplots has a z buffer , but it only works within one object and not between objects.
So for instance, one surface with a part of it behind another part of it works. But two surfaces intersecting each other wont work. I hope a good z buffer will be included in pgfplots soon.
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