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I wouldn't really call this Excel per se. It's using Microsoft Office's drawing tools which are also included in Word, PowerPoint, etc. You can add shapes, colo
by guelo 11y ago
I wouldn't really call this Excel per se. It's using Microsoft Office's drawing tools which are also included in Word, PowerPoint, etc. You can add shapes, color them, group them, etc. It doesn't really interact with Excel's cells except if you do some fancy VBA scripting. It's still very impressive.
- pcurve 11y agoFirst I thought he was using each individual cell. Still amazing nonetheless.
- hjek 11y agoI was also expecting individual cells and VBA scripting. It's vector-graphics he's making, and the title is absolutely misleading. Anyone can do "spreadsheet art" by putting any image into MS Excel or Libreoffice Calc then! I find the idea hinted at in the title way more interesting than these actual images.
- tragomaskhalos 11y agoSame here. It'd be fun to write an Excel macro that read a png and coloured in cells according to the pixel colour values, though I guess that'd be cheating.
- nitin_flanker 11y agoYes he could have probably used other tools. But, as written in the article, he didn't find MS Word THAT flexible as Excel. And, maybe he ignored PowerPoint because of small work area. Excel sheets have a vast working area, and looking at his large drawings I guess Excel is the best fit.
- VMG 11y ago> Horiuchi also tried working with Microsoft Word but it didn’t offer the flexibility that Excel did. “Take that, Wall St. analysts,” he later added. (not really) Not going to argue with him on that.