PiScript

There are many, many tools for producing pictures for mathematics exposition. The one that I am going to describe is something I developed for myself because I wasn't happy with what the other tools had to offer.

It is a Python interface to PostScript, the programming language used by printers. Python is a programming language that was developed about 15 years ago, and it has recently become quite popular. It is an interpreted language, so you just run a program by running Python on the program file itself, or possibly making the program file an executable. I call my package PiScript.

Manual for PiScript (.pdf) (including a short outline of Python in an appendix)
Home page for PiScript
Home page of Python
David Austin's JiScript, an extension of PiScript that uses Python and PiScript as an interface to Java animations