I've always thought a data-centered programming language that compiles to an Excel spreadsheet would be a Fun Challenge™ and possibly even useful. Spreadsheets are an amazing tool. This is an amazing demonstration.
3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
11–20 of 33 posts
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#12Could be rewrited for LibreOffice Calc?
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#13As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.
Ah, HN. I came to comment "anyone remember the Doom engine in Excel 95?" And instead the top comment is "I wrote the Doom engine in Excel 95".
Can't top that. Kudos, sir.
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#14As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.
My brain is desperately attempting to recall the sequence of steps to open it. Ctrl + Shift, clicking something in the Help -> About... dialog box, then F5 or something? And/or there was a star-wars scroller in one of other apps, right?
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#15As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.
Was the Excel 95' Doom written in VBA or something else?
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#16As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.
My brain is desperately attempting to recall the sequence of steps to open it. Ctrl + Shift, clicking something in the Help -> About... dialog box, then F5 or something? And/or there was a star-wars scroller in one of other apps, right?
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#17I just watched a talk this morning about doing high dynamic range photography in Excel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8). Looks like now I've got something to watch tomorrow!
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#18I just watched a talk this morning about doing high dynamic range photography in Excel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 ). Looks like now I've got something to watch tomorrow!
that is great, both of these reminded me of deepexcel: multi-layer neural networks implemented with a spreadsheet!:
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#19As a less extreme example, an implementation of the AES cipher in Excel formulas (no macros): https://www.nayuki.io/page/aes-cipher-internals-in-excel
Re: 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae
#20Could be rewrited for LibreOffice Calc?
It renders in LibreOffice - although I wasn't able to get the movement to work, even after enabling macros.