Excel art
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To give him credit, it looks much better than what the average teen photoshop user would create.
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I was hoping that he would be coloring cells to paint. I was bitterly disappointed.
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@lushr said:
I was hoping that he would be coloring cells to paint. I was bitterly disappointed.
Me too.
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@msntfs said:
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2013/07/29/elderly-japanese-artist-creates-amazing-works-ms-excel/
To give him credit, it looks much better than what the average teen photoshop user would create.
I guess nobody's seen the iOS7 designed in Word video then? Seriously, I hope this gets the Photoshop junkies to take a long hard look at how other tools can be used for design. I can't count how many times I've asked for a company's logo in vector format only to get a PSD. And these are design agencies!
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@Soviut said:
@msntfs said:
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2013/07/29/elderly-japanese-artist-creates-amazing-works-ms-excel/
To give him credit, it looks much better than what the average teen photoshop user would create.
I guess nobody's seen the iOS7 designed in Word video then? Seriously, I hope this gets the Photoshop junkies to take a long hard look at how other tools can be used for design. I can't count how many times I've asked for a company's logo in vector format only to get a PSD. And these are design agencies!
Was it a raster PSD or did it contain paths? Not that I think they shouldn't have sent a proper vector format. Just saying you can make vector drawings in Photoshop.
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@toon said:
Was it a raster PSD or did it contain paths?
They could just turn each pixel in the original into a filled borderless rectangle. There you go, vector format!(I wish I was joking, but I've seen people do this for real. Ugh!)
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@dkf said:
@toon said:
Was it a raster PSD or did it contain paths?
They could just turn each pixel in the original into a filled borderless rectangle. There you go, vector format!(I wish I was joking, but I've seen people do this for real. Ugh!)
It amazes me how little designers know about image formats, or even about the web. That doesn't surprise me and I have to say I do agree with Soviut's general point, which is of course that it's insane that there are image producing professionals who don't know the difference between raster and vector pics.
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@lushr said:
I was hoping that he would be coloring cells to paint. I was bitterly disappointed.
Like this?
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This one's old news.. I wrote a blog post and created my own Excel art by reading a bitmap into Excel
http://conficient.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/excel-art-the-new-ascii-art/
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@Anonymouse said:
Or like this. It's double-buffered!@lushr said:
I was hoping that he would be coloring cells to paint. I was bitterly disappointed.
Like this?Edit: this one's better.
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@Zecc said:
Edit: this one's better.
Wow, is that Excel 97?
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@ender said:
@Zecc said:
Edit: this one's better.
Wow, is that Excel 97?If they're using that that cheating, that one already has a 3D engine built in
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@ender said:
@Zecc said:
Edit: this one's better.
Wow, is that Excel 97?If they're using that it's cheating, Excel 97 already has a 3D engine built-in
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Given enough time, you could probably write a raytracing engine within excel, since you can color each cell based on an expression value. It would only be extremely pointless and slow.
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In 2006, he won the year’s Excel Autoshape competition in Japan.
...TRWTF is that they even have one of those.
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Photoshop is more of a photo editor that a drawing tool.
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@dtech said:
@ender said:
@Zecc said:
Edit: this one's better.
Wow, is that Excel 97?If they're using that it's cheating, Excel 97 already has a 3D engine built-in
Personally, I prefered Dev Hunter.
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Reminds me of the pixel painter: a 98 year old man drawing very impressive stuff in... ms paint:
http://news.g2techgroup.com/elderly-man-uses-ms-paint-to-create-masterpieces/See the short documentary: http://vimeo.com/70748579#
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@toon said:
Was it a raster PSD or did it contain paths? Not that I think they shouldn't have sent a proper vector format. Just saying you can make vector drawings in Photoshop.
Usually, if they send a PSD, it's, mercifully, vector paths. But this is like putting a JPEG inside a word document; Right format, wrong container. The way photoshop implements vectors is a special level of shoehorned hell.
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@lushr said:
Given enough time, you could probably write a raytracing engine within excel, since you can color each cell based on an expression value. It would only be extremely pointless and slow.
So are most raytracers anyways. It'd still be a cool proof of concept.
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@anotherusername said:
In 2006, he won the year’s Excel Autoshape competition in Japan.
...TRWTF is that they even have one of those.
