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Abstract for Sfb Preprint No. 260
Oorange: A Virtual Laboratory for Experimental Mathematics C. Gunn, A. Ortmann, U. Pinkall, K. Polthier, U. Schwarz
Oorange is a virtual laboratory for experimental mathematics. It consists of a set of infrastructure services supporting the creation, execution, and dissemination of mathematical experiments. For each component of a traditional physical experiment, there is a corresponding Oorange infrastructure feature:
A hybrid language scheme underlies the design: interpreted scripts in Tcl manage tasks requiring high flexibility, while a compiled object library in Objective C supports the underlying mathematical algorithms. The resulting system is intended to be accessible to wide range of expertise levels. Oorange is free software distributed according to a GNU-like license agreement.
- Object of study: High level software classes
- Laboratory equipment: Foundation software classes and function libraries
- Configuration of specific experiment: Computational network composed of objects
- Monitor and control: Object inspection; 2D and 3D viewers
- Running the experiment: Animation objects
- Recording the experiment: Archiving and scripting
- Disseminating result: Documentation
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