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3D engine on MS Excel without VBA (2018) [video]

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• Tetris1 7y ago
  Why...
  • gchadwick 7y ago
    Because the person who did it found it fun to do? I believe the site is called 'Hacker News' not 'Sensible and Useful Engineering News'
  • darkpuma 7y ago
    If you have to ask a question like that, it's doubtful that you'll comprehend the answer: Fun.
• bschne 7y ago
  For another completely insane but kind of fun way to abuse an office application, see "On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint" [1]. (Gwern has a whole list of accidentally/surprisingly turing-complete things at [2]) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 2. https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
• CamelCaseName 7y ago
  Wow! This is really neat. Another project watchers might find interesting is the top post on r/Excel, where someone made a video player in Excel because his machine was completely locked down. https://old.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_completely_locked_down_machine_time/ https://old.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_c...
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• ummwhat 7y ago
  This will make a nice addition to my office computing playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIYRqpIFecpDSXqCOddUMshdRotSkD6I https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIYRqpIFecpDSXqCOddU...
  • Mister_Snuggles 7y ago
    My favourite (ab)use of Excel, which is already on your list, is using it for HDR photography[0]. While I'd never use it for day-to-day anything, things like this are a really interesting way to show how things like HDR photography actually work. Excel can be very approachable for stuff like this. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8