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I was disappointed. I expected the guy to tweak the columns's width and rows's height to make an array of "pixels" and then fill each one with a color (thus mak
by jvzr 13y ago
I was disappointed. I expected the guy to tweak the columns's width and rows's height to make an array of "pixels" and then fill each one with a color (thus making an image).
Instead, he merely uses the drawing tools of Excel to make his art. Still pretty cool though :)
- tlarkworthy 13y agoyeah he really should be using visio (or obvs, inkscape)
- taternuts 13y agoYeah that's what I was hoping for too, that and maybe the actual files to play with
- user24 13y agoOn the contrary, I was quite interested to see that this wasn't yet another excel-as-pixel-art project and that he was leveraging the better drawing tools in excel to achieve his goal.
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- ashmud 13y agoQuote from article: "[...] Excel is already pre-installed in most computers and is easier to use than Paint. He tried using Word but was limited to the paper sizing and he could draw more freely in Excel."
- pjungwir 13y agoSimilarly, I've starting using Google Docs Drawings to do early whiteboarding with clients, because it is so simple and makes collaboration easier than mailing files back and forth.
- T-hawk 13y agoI immediately thought of origami as the traditional Japanese art. So Excel formulas and calculations would define the folds, and the results could be rendered using that Excel 3D engine that crops up here occasionally. Since this isn't that... who here wants to start up some computational origami in Excel?