Financial support for the development of Asymptote was generously
provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada, the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and the
University of Alberta Faculty of Science.
We also would like to acknowledge the previous work of John D. Hobby,
author of the program MetaPost that inspired the development of
Asymptote, and Donald E. Knuth, author of TeX and
MetaFont (on which MetaPost is based).
The authors of Asymptote are Andy Hammerlindl, John Bowman, and
Tom Prince. Sean Healy designed the Asymptote logo. Other
contributors include Orest Shardt, Jesse Frohlich, Michail Vidiassov,
Charles Staats, Philippe Ivaldi, Olivier Guibé, Radoslav Marinov,
Jeff Samuelson, Chris Savage, Jacques Pienaar, Mark Henning, Steve Melenchuk,
Martin Wiebusch, Stefan Knorr, Supakorn “Jamie” Rassameemasmuang,
Jacob Skitsko, Joseph Chaumont, and Oliver Cheng. Pedram Emami
developed the Asymptote Web Application hosted at
http://asymptote.ualberta.ca: