3d objects in Excel

[iago]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?print=1

This is a few months old, but I just came across it and it's really cool! I especially like the first youtube video where they show the rotating wireframe cube, based completely on cell colouring. Very slick!

Here's another one, where somebody used Excel to play videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RoLqiXVF8U

[leet_muffin]

Haha, that's sick. I'm in a civil engineering intro class where we basically spend 8 weeks entirely on Excel, pretty decent program, got a lot of interesting uses out of it. We just started on the second 8 weeks, though, which is all Mathcad 14, also an interesting program.

[iago]

I absolutely hate Excel, it's a huge piece of crap. But, at the same time, it has a ton of cool features.

[dark_drake]

We just started on the second 8 weeks, though, which is all Mathcad 14, also an interesting program.

I love Mathcad. A lot. That said, the only problem I have is just how much it's crashed on me.

[leet_muffin]

We just started on the second 8 weeks, though, which is all Mathcad 14, also an interesting program.

I love Mathcad. A lot. That said, the only problem I have is just how much it's crashed on me.

Hahah, indeed. So buggy. I've had to re-do 2 homework assignments due it's crashes. Print-screen = crash.

[Camel]

Well, it is certainly interesting, but the article makes a lot of baseless (and some fragrantly untrue) assertions. For example, LISP was designed to break the "vertical programming" paradigm -- and it does so quite well. Ultimately, it's completely irrelevant to an experienced programmer, because processors work "vertically" anyways.