Web-based category theory demonstrations
I'd like to announce a selection of Web-based category theory demonstrations that I've put up at http://www.j-paine.org/cgi-bin/webcats/webcats.php . The page contains a number of buttons such as "generate and demonstrate an equaliser" and "generate and demonstrate a limit": clicking on one will generate an example of the construct in the category of finite sets, and display it as a listing of its objects and arrows, and as a diagram. For limits and colimits, the demos generate a small random graph, convert it to a diagram, then compute and display its limit or colimit. Comments would be very welcome. The demos are a bit of an experiment: I had some categorical algorithms lying around from other work, and thought it would be interesting to connect them to the Web. Jocelyn Paine http://www.j-paine.org/
Thanks to the people who commented on my demonstrations. Unfortunately, I've had to disable these for the moment, because something is hammering the site and overwhelming my file quota with the number of image files created. (I'm on a commercial ISP, so resources are a bit tight.) I suspect that since I released the links, they've been grabbed by robots, so I need to look into that, and also be quicker at deleting old files. I'll post when that's sorted out. Jocelyn Paine http://www.j-paine.org http://www.spreadsheet-parts.org http://www.spreadsheet-factory.com +44 (0)7768 534 091
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