Joho the Blog » excel http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Japanese art painted with Excel http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/05/24/japanese-art-painted-with-excel/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/05/24/japanese-art-painted-with-excel/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:18 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=12881 According to PSFK, which bases the report on an article in the Japaense-language PC Online, for the past ten years Tatsuo Horiuchi has been drawing traditional Japanese prints using Excel spreadsheets.

Here’s a screen capture of what Horiuchi’s work looks like in process:

Why does he do this? Because Excel comes bundled for free with the computers he uses. Yeah, well, so does HTML5 Canvas but that doesn’t mean I’d want to create, say, the Mona Lisa in Javascript.

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