Using Excel As a 3D Graphics Engine 292
simoniker writes "Obviously whimsical but slightly mind-blowing — an Eastern European coder has published video and the Excel tables to get full 3D wireframe running in Microsoft Excel. He even has solid polygonal graphics running. This isn't an Easter Egg by the Excel creators. Rather, he's using formulas to output the graphics, using two different methods, and showing all the variables on-screen in real time as the 3D is created."
skip right to the video (Score:5, Informative)
and
http://www.youtube.com/user/GamasutraOfficial [youtube.com]
Download (Score:2, Informative)
Here's the demos they show in the youtube videos. [gamasutra.com]
Press ALT+F8 to run and press ESC to stop. They work in Office 2007 in addition to whatever they had in the youtube videos (2k3 I assume).
Demonstrations (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Explains the flight simulator in Excel 97? (Score:4, Informative)
(Obligatory Dilbert) [mit.edu]
Future of programming? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:One can only ask... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:One can only ask... (Score:3, Informative)
Be sure to enable the macros included and then Alt+F8, and run.
No cake for you! (Score:4, Informative)
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
Re:One can only ask... (Score:5, Informative)
Functional coding guys would 'get' the wow factor of it all, I guess.