For those out there who truly have too much time on their hands, I bring you...
The Excel Graphics Engine
drudge
March 6 2008 5:48 PM EST
geezus, this guy has a lot of time on his hands
Hm... pretty interesting. I'll have to look into it.
You guys are such huge techno freaks.
:D
Awesome!
I love Excel! I need to study this! :D
This kind of begs the question: what kind of country do you have to live in to use Excel as your graphics engine?
Obscurans
March 11 2008 4:30 PM EDT
America or Europe or Ballmerland.
Tezmac
March 11 2008 4:34 PM EDT
One with excellent programmers!
@Tezmac
lol.
@Obscurans
I think the guy lived in Hungary. I need to find the /. article on it...
Daz
March 12 2008 8:56 AM EDT
It actually wouldn't be TOOO hard to do. Excel supports enough scripting languages to handle it. That isn't to say that I could (be bothered) to do it. Just imagine you're making an old 16 bit game, except instead of referring to a pixel, you refer to a cell...
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