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I use asymptote because of its amazing 3D capabilities. However, when I tried to plot a surface over a nonrectangular domain, I could not do it without getting jagged edges. As far as I know, other software such as Mathematica, Maple, or JavaView allow this kind of plots.

So the question is: is it possible to draw a generic surface in asymptote over a nonrectangular domain in such a way that its edges are smooth?

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    If you want an implicit plot, the contour3 module may be helpful. Otherwise, I'm reasonably sure the solution you describe below (mapping the domain onto a rectangle) is the only other currently feasible solution. I suppose you could set the mesh to be extremely fine so that the ragged edges are less obvious, but that would take forever to compile without really solving the problem.
    – Charles Staats
    Sep 20, 2013 at 18:36

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I found a solution that consists of mapping the domain onto a rectangle. If a domain D in R^2 can be represented as

D={(a(u,v), b(u,v)); u1<=u<=u2, v1<=v<=v2}

then, to plot a function f(x,y) over D, we could define the following function in asymptote:

triple g(pair p){
    real x=a(p.x,p.y), y=b(p.x,p.y);
    return (x,y,f(x,y));
}

Finally, the surface is plotted as follows

draw(surface(g,(u1,v1),(u2,v2),...),...);
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