Asymptote-based scientific animation

This article discusses a universal way to create animation using Asymptote the language for vector graphics. The itself has built-in library creating animations, but its practical use is complicated by an extremely brief description in official documentation and unstable execution of existing examples. purpose this eliminate gap. method we describe based on PDF-file with frames Asymptote, further converting it into set PNG images merging them video FFmpeg. All stages are described detail, which allows reader without being familiar used utilities.