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Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents
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timothy
on Saturday November 22, @02:28PM
from the but-they-offered-it-a-blindfold dept.
from the but-they-offered-it-a-blindfold dept.
CyberKnet writes "Some enterprising folks over at Google have collaborated via Google Documents to create holiday art using cells in a spreadsheet as the pixels. A time delay video was taken and is available over at YouTube and the result is pretty spectacular. More info on how they did this is available behind the scenes. They're inviting people to share their own masterpieces or post a video response over on YouTube."
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Excel can do even more! (Score:3, Informative)
3d Graphics engine in Excel previously on slashdot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1732220&from=rss [slashdot.org]
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Anime in Excel (Score:3, Interesting)
ToraDora! OP in Excel [youtube.com]
Higurashi Kai OP in Excel [youtube.com]
Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents (Score:4, Funny)
Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents
Jesus christ, so much for "do no evil"!
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Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents
Jesus christ, so much for "do no evil"!
I believe He was executed as well. I don't know if we can blame Google for it.
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Kinda like this [google.com]?
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Awesome (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the sort of coolness that I like about technology - the fact that you can use to create something not quite mainstream, yet very interesting and very cool.
And these are the moments when I really enjoy reading Slashdot. Reminds me of how back in the day, Slashdot used to post something small but interesting done by a geek in a garage...
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Except... this is clearly a PR piece (Score:2, Insightful)
Your comment about "small but interesting done by a geek in a garage" is clearly not true. This was posted by Google PR, an $83bn outfit. That's one heck of a garage.
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For one, I said it reminded me of those days, not that it was the same as those days.. For another, this was done by a few people at Google, which doesn't necessarily mean that the entire muscle of Google was behind them.
Amen.
Nice, however... (Score:2)
Re:Nice, however... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Nice, however... (Score:5, Funny)
Huh, yeah. Let's have some boobs instead. Oh, God, I foresee a wave of Spread-em-sheet porn...
Okay, not exactly porn, but you inspired me to produce a nude... [google.com]
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Idle? (Score:4, Insightful)
Wow. A grid-based system capable of colouring grids can be used to do pixel art? Clearly the term "enterprising" has changed in meaning, but leaving that aside I have to ask why this is in tech? It quite clearly belongs in idle.
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How fitting ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yes, because it's so much more efficient for everyone to be using different versions of the software AND the document, unless you want to also deal with setting up a collaborative document system.
But opening a browser window and clicking a link - that's just too much effort.
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All those lemmings who advocate running applications inside a browser (completely ignoring the fact that networking is available outside browsers too and you don't even need to hand over all your data to a 3rd party for groupware applications) should go apologize to Microsoft, who took a lot of flak for considering the browser part of the OS ...
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[Offtopic] Why is this in tech? (Score:2, Insightful)
*yawn* (Score:2)
ASCII porn is *so* 1970's.
Heard round the net: (Score:2)
Spreadsheets or GTFO!
CAD by Excel (Score:3, Funny)
A few years ago, a newly hired engineer at work complained that he couldn't find any drawings done by the previous engineer that had just quit. I looked and the guy that quit had several thousand Excel files and his drawings were all done using tiny cells and cell borders. They were complex drawings of mechanical parts and some were even done in 3D perspective.
The new engineer ended up spending the next few months recreating all the drawings from A3-sized printouts using a real CAD program.
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the music in that youtube video has been very definitely ripped off of some other song I've heard, but I can't seem to put my finger on it. anyone else have an idea?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by ripped off but the comments section of the video in question mentioned that Google Programmer had created the song.
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