MetaPost Links

• To properly typeset MetaPost in LaTeX and friends you need the mflogo package.
• The creator of MetaPost is John Hobby. Papers about MetaPost by John Hobby are:
  • Introduction to MetaPost.
  • A MetaPost like system with PostScript output.
  • A User's manual for MetaPost.
  • Drawing graphs with MetaPost.
• Now Wikipedia also has a MetaPost page and examples of MetaPost diagrams.
• Denis Roegel also has a MetaPost Page. He has implemented an excellent package called metaobj. You can download it from CTAN by following the following link. You should also see see his paper entitled Creating 3D animations with METAPOST.
• The ConTeXt MetaPost Site should be on everybodys hotlist. Make sure you have a look at Hans Hagen's MPtoPDF converter and his MPY MAKE tool. Interesting articles by hans Hagen are:
  • MetaFun manuals in paper and screen versions.
  • Puzzling Graphics in METAPOST.
  • Integrating TEX, MetaPost, JavaScript and PDF.
  • Visual Debugging in TeX.
• An impressive 3D Package by Laurance Finston.
• A tutorial by André Heck.
• The NTG (Dutch TeX Users Group) also has a MetaPost Page.
• All John Hobby's MetaPost examples and much more can be found on Jean-Michel Sarlat's excellent MetaPost Site (in French). The site contains a link to a nice MetaPost to HTML script which does some syntax highlighting. Also make sure you visit his BBgraf page with links to form based pages to generate several kinds of mathematically orientated pictures.
• These animations from Denis Barbier are related to the previous link.
• Examples by Vincent Zoonekynd. Includes macros.mp.
• Preprints by Donald Knuth contains some nice MetaPost examples.
• Michio Matsuyama has put some nice examples on-line. Follow the links to the different sections on the site. Don't be scared off if you can't read Japanese. Many hyperlinks will point to MetaPost programs in English.
• Tommy Ekkola has put cm_arrows on-line.
• Anthony Phan has a nice MetaPost Promotion Page (in French). Make sure to visit all pages (there's some nice 3D stuff hidden somewhere).
• L. Nobre G. has a MetaPost Page with a beautiful design. Make sure to visit the FeatPost Pages.
• If you like Escher then you may like the following MAPS article by Kees van der Laan. It describes how to create certain kinds of Escher pictures and more.
• A graphical frontend to MetaPost is METAGRAF.
• Some MetaPost programs by Johannes Hüsing.
• Finally, there is TUG's listing of MetaPost on the Web.

Marc van Dongen