Maximum Mathematics

A comprehensive Asymptote library for creating professional mathematical diagrams and visualizations.

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Design principles

This is a highly opinionated design and visualization library. Using the basic methods will cause every visualization to share a consistent theme throughout the library. Deviating from the theme it provides — especially in how individual visualizations are rendered — may require heavy modification.

The library is designed so users only have to focus on providing the data needed to create a visualization. It eliminates most of the styling and rendering-algorithm decisions, offering a simple interface for producing a wide variety of visualizations.

Design philosophy

Every figure follows the same path:

1. Create a visualization and configure its data (constructor + fluent methods).
2. Create an Image and configure it with setter methods (size, padding, caption, background).
3. Add the visualization to the image with image.add(visualization).

That last step renders automatically — you never call a render, draw, or output function yourself. The only exception is the escape hatch: if you want the bare visualization without an enclosing image, you call the visualization’s own render(width, height) directly (see Standalone rendering).

basic_usage.asy

// 1.) Import the MaximumMathematics library
import MaximumMathematics;

// 2.) Create the visualization
RelationDiagram diagram = RelationDiagram();
diagram.add_set(new string[] {"1", "2", "3"}, "A");
diagram.add_set(new string[] {"a", "b", "c"}, "B");
diagram.add_set(new string[] {"u", "v", "w"}, "C");
diagram.add_relation(0, 1, new pair[] {(0,0), (1,1), (2,2)});
diagram.add_relation(1, 2, new pair[] {(0,1), (1,2), (2,0)});

// 3.) Create and configure an Image to hold the visualization
Image img = Image();
img.padding(0.2);

// 4.) Add the visualization to the Image
img.add(diagram);

This snippet is a complete, standalone .asy file — there’s nothing else to add. Running Asymptote directly on it produces the image below.

There are no configuration structs and no wrapper types: you configure everything through setter methods on the object itself.

What’s in the library

Page	What it covers
Installation	Cloning the repo and pointing Asymptote at it
Image	The canvas every visualization is drawn into
Gallery	Arranging several visualizations in a grid
Visualizations	RelationDiagram, TruthTable, AccumulationTable, Plot, DiscretePlot, SwitchingNetwork, GraphDiagram
Standalone rendering	Rendering a visualization without an enclosing Image
Output and viewing	Choosing an output format and viewing rendered SVGs
Styling and typography	The shared theme file, and how to restyle the library

Credits

Maximum Mathematics — created by Jacob Hiance.