John Bowman

The focus on this release was TeXLive 2026, including getting the support in for WebGL animations. The animation features in the AsyGL library are a work in progress and we will continue add more functionality. Billboard labels aren't yet supported and the scene clipping bounds have yet to be adjusted to account for animation transforms. But at least the core functionality is in the C++ code so we can now focus on updating the online AsyGL library. For now, use settings.autobillboard=false; forWebGL...

Asymptote: 3.09 Released

A 3D rendering bug exposed by the new default setting autoplay=true was fixed. The experimental and buggy support for OpenGL animations was removed in favour of WebGL animations.

Asymptote: 3.08 Released

Include generated GUI/xasy* files in releases. Fix and standardize make clean, distclean, and maintainer-clean.

Asymptote: 3.07 Released

A busy loop and race conditions in WebGL animations were addressed. WebGL animations are fully reversible and controlled by the autoplay setting. Build issues on legacy platforms were addressed; unused files were removed.

I just updated https://asymptote.ualberta.ca/ to 3.06. The AWA front end doesn't yet pass the arrow keys to asy so you may wish to download the generated html file and view it directly in your browser. The b key display a slider bar. There are still some issues to address (like clipping planes and enforcing reversibility) but at least the support has made it into the 3.06 release for the upcoming TexLive 2026 distribution. Most if not all of the remaining issues can be incrementally addressed in...