My previous blog post showing how to detect Borsuk-Ulam points in real time worked, but I’m the first to admit that its UI was a bit lacking. The animation is cumbersome, not super performant, and a bit basic-looking. That’s because I am not much of a web app developer - I’ve never written much (if any) JavaScript. So I built the whole app in Python, with an Altair interactive chart. Functional, yes. But not user-friendly.
Enter AI. In the process of playing around with Google’s AI Studio, I found it to be quite capable of writing React code, which naturally led to the prospect of improving the Borsuk-Ulam app experience. So I asked it to build a performant and modern-looking app with the same Python backend code.
Suffice it to say that this did not work out of the box. Indeed, it took quite a bit of handholding to get something acceptable. But the end result is certainly better than something I could have written myself. Here’s a screenshot:
The updated app now lives in its own standalone repo, and can be visited on its own page here. Enjoy!