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

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102 points·trueduke··7 comments

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_c...

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

2. https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

This will make a nice addition to my office computing playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIYRqpIFecpDSXqCOddU...

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

Why...

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'

If you have to ask a question like that, it's doubtful that you'll comprehend the answer: Fun.

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