Recursivelyenumerable thread (Excel art)

[Rufus]

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/03/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-73-year-old-who-creates-beautiful-works-of-art-using-only-excel/

[CatsCatsCats]

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[Atramental]

A true recursivelyenumerable "Excel art" thread would be a screenshot of an Excel spread sheet with complex data sets and then some vague & perplexing sentence about how math is the only true art form in this world. 

But despite that, cool art.

[Rufus]

Ha, true. You don't even have to look up any words in here.

[nudemacusers]

[Dickie Dee]

My last five minutes looking at the actual files:

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Office Graphics & Visualizations team

[benjipwns]

I feel like this feller has been around before, with some big argument that the guy wasn't creating art because ["real" artist bullshit here] or something.

EDIT: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-artist/

Twebe { 06.11.13 at 8:50 am }
So, as far as I can tell, these are just images pasted into an XL sheet.
How were the images created? Here are the graphs or formulas? How exactly was XL used to create these?
I downloaded both files and looked for hidden sheets or formulas and didn’t find anything so I am a little skeptical.
Thoughts?

mth { 06.11.13 at 10:21 am }
I still don’t get what’s “Excel” about this. I can “ungroup” and move/stretch shapes around, too. But, for instance, there’s a swan in the middle of the cherry blossoms picture. Where did he draw the swan? Did he freehand that using some other software and copy it into Excel?

Can’t someone just do something like this by “drawing” into a large spreadsheet using “fill” (the paint can on the home tab) and then shrinking it down, so it doesn’t look pixellated.

nk { 06.14.13 at 12:22 am }
He makes art with excel and microsoft is too cheap to give him a new copy of 2010 or 2013 excel. good job microsoft.

mk { 06.14.13 at 12:29 am }
“Any tool can be used for art, and Mr. Horiuchi proves it!”

Severe intellectual fail. He didn’t prove any such thing. What’s remarkable is that even *after* Mr. Horiuchi both states and demonstrates with his beautiful work that Excel has more drawing functions and that they are easier to use than Paint, a program designed specifically for drawing, so many people make comments based on their own prior beliefs and expectations about Excel rather than on its capabilities that have just been demonstrated.

“Even using cold office equipment like Excel that’s not meant for art”

Another foolish statement. Pens and pencils are also “cold office equipment” not meant specifically for art, but they provide that capability, as does Excel which has features designed specifically for producing *artwork* … it has polygon fill and gradients; it is not “any tool”. Not even Mr. Horiuchi can make art with a disk defragmenter or an anti-virus program.

NO FUN ALLOWED

[recursivelyenumerable]

At least for recent Office versions there's one team (which I was organizationally part of during my last contract, though the project I was on wasn't really directly tied to anything else they did) that develops the common drawing, image editing and charting code used by all of Office, so it's not especially Excel-specific.

Did I mention I used to work for Microsoft in the Office division? Because I totally did.