namatad: masterpiece
I dont think you know what that word means

Or "stunning"

Or "art"

Real art is created with MS Paint.

The only one I'm impressed with is those created with charts, the others are just... excel drawing.

Ha... Ghostery blocked 24 items for me. And this "Tech E Blog" is nothing new on fark, they have been posting a few tiny screenshots of something stolen from another blog on their crappy ad site for ages here

playblu: Thanks for the trip to virus-land, ass-mitter. Check your farking links before you submit them.

came to say this.

Meh. My dad used to create that sort of thing (well, not freaking cartoon or video game characters) with MS Paint.

/autistic? OCD? dunno.

That's nothing. Here's a video of writing functional code using different coloured pixels in Photoshop. (new window)

This list fails without my year-end budget. That sucker had TABS!

stunning art masterpiece



You're welcome

The company I work for once made an automated welder to weld up canisters holding spent nuclear waste. Naturally, this necessitated that we have some testing method better than "eh, that weld looks good". So we then made up a machine that used a laser to measure the height of the weld. Those numbers were eventually fed into an excel sheet that made up a graph. Where the graph was one color, the weld was too high, where it was another, too low.

But then my boss, who's a bit of a nerd, had this machine sitting on his desk for a week while he wondered what else he could stick under it and measure. Lincoln's head on a penny was pretty good.



He also did a dime, the original excel file's just under a megabyte.

i expected cell coloring and resizing to create drawings. not just using the "Draw" feature in any MS Office product. Wow it does vector gradients.

playblu: Thanks for the trip to virus-land, ass-mitter. Check your farking links before you submit them.

Asshole. You worthless douchemitter.

jso2897: playblu: Thanks for the trip to virus-land, ass-mitter. Check your farking links before you submit them.

Ghostery is blocking 22 items on that site. All, apparently, adware.
This is why I netsurf on a Linux box.

Can you list them? I'm on FF with noscript, abp, and a custom hosts file and didn't see a damn thing that was adware/virus.

Karac: The company I work for once made an automated welder to weld up canisters holding spent nuclear waste. Naturally, this necessitated that we have some testing method better than "eh, that weld looks good". So we then made up a machine that used a laser to measure the height of the weld. Those numbers were eventually fed into an excel sheet that made up a graph. Where the graph was one color, the weld was too high, where it was another, too low.

But then my boss, who's a bit of a nerd, had this machine sitting on his desk for a week while he wondered what else he could stick under it and measure. Lincoln's head on a penny was pretty good.

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He also did a dime, the original excel file's just under a megabyte.

Congratulations, you just admitted, in a public forum, to working with a machine that could produce highly accurate counterfeit coins.

/expect some visitors soon who may not be full of the Christmas spirit...

Excel Art lets me know that the morning queries are still running (new window)

I miss Heamer

^
What happened, his neck snapped from the weight of his gigantic fro?

docmattic: But then my boss, who's a bit of a nerd, had this machine sitting on his desk for a week while he wondered what else he could stick under it and measure. Lincoln's head on a penny was pretty good.

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He also did a dime, the original excel file's just under a megabyte.

Congratulations, you just admitted, in a public forum, to working with a machine that could produce highly accurate counterfeit analyze physical characteristics of coins.

/expect some visitors soon who may not be full of the Christmas spirit...

Read again - nothing is "produced" except a scan of a penny's topography. Slightly better than photocopying the coin, but no one could possibly mistake an Excel file for actual currency.

// a printout maybe, but you'd have to be Kentucky-inbred levels of dumb to make that mistake

HOLY CRAP GUYS get a load of this STUNNING ART MASTERPIECE created entirely out of baking goods!!11!omg

SOMEBODY CALL THE F*CKING LOUVRE

JESUS CHRIST look at this mind-blowing art MASTERPIECE created in Excel! And it's educational too!!!!!

BURN THE MONA LISA TO ASHES

Dr Dreidel: docmattic: But then my boss, who's a bit of a nerd, had this machine sitting on his desk for a week while he wondered what else he could stick under it and measure. Lincoln's head on a penny was pretty good.

[img854.imageshack.us image 640x423]

He also did a dime, the original excel file's just under a megabyte.

Congratulations, you just admitted, in a public forum, to working with a machine that could produce highly accurate counterfeit analyze physical characteristics of coins.

/expect some visitors soon who may not be full of the Christmas spirit...

Read again - nothing is "produced" except a scan of a penny's topography. Slightly better than photocopying the coin, but no one could possibly mistake an Excel file for actual currency.

// a printout maybe, but you'd have to be Kentucky-inbred levels of dumb to make that mistake

Well, the numbers in the spreadsheet do measure the penny down to two thousands of an inch, from which you could concievably get a CNC to produce a die. But if you could turn a profit by making fake pennies, you wouldn't go to jail for long. Since it costs the government more than 1 cent to make it, they'd be more interested in hiring you than putting you in a PMITA.

My idea of an Excel masterpiece:


cos(d8*g)*(cos(e8*ev)*(cos(d*f8)*cos(dd*g8) - (f8*sin(d*f8)*sin(dd*g8))/g8) - e8*sin(e8*ev)*((cos(dd*g8)*sin(d*f8))/f8 + (cos(d*f8)*sin(dd*g8))/g8)) - d8*sin(d8*g)*(cos(e8*ev)*((cos(dd*g8)*sin(d*f8))/f8 + (cos(d*f8)*sin(dd*g8))/g8) + (sin(e8*ev)*(cos(d*f8)*cos(dd*g8) - (f8*sin(d*f8)*sin(dd*g8))/g8))/e8)

Karac: Well, the numbers in the spreadsheet do measure the penny down to two thousands of an inch, from which you could concievably get a CNC to produce a die

Pressing the penny into some clay would do the same thing. Outlaw all clay and Silly Putty!

Karac: Well, the numbers in the spreadsheet do measure the penny down to two thousands of an inch, from which you could concievably get a CNC to produce a die. But if you could turn a profit by making fake pennies, you wouldn't go to jail for long. Since it costs the government more than 1 cent to make it, they'd be more interested in hiring you than putting you in a PMITA.

That's the point at which you'd probably be in danger of being popped for counterfeiting. Even soliciting for the equipment, if you mentioned what it was for, would be a part of the crime.

Which is, I think, what docmattic was getting at.

Dr Dreidel: Karac: Well, the numbers in the spreadsheet do measure the penny down to two thousands of an inch, from which you could concievably get a CNC to produce a die. But if you could turn a profit by making fake pennies, you wouldn't go to jail for long. Since it costs the government more than 1 cent to make it, they'd be more interested in hiring you than putting you in a PMITA.

That's the point at which you'd probably be in danger of being popped for counterfeiting. Even soliciting for the equipment, if you mentioned what it was for, would be a part of the crime.

Which is, I think, what docmattic was getting at.

Same goes for a lot of precursor substances with drugs. Safrole oil is perfectly legit as an ingredient in Sassafras but if you say "ectasy" you'd be nailed hard.

/still can't buy Safrole oil in large quantities

APE992: /still can't buy Safrole oil in large quantities

Aside from making pesticides or ecstasy, why would you want "large quantities"?

i was only impressed by #5. the rest were just drawings using line tools and colors.

/yawn

jso2897: Ghostery is blocking 22 items on that site. All, apparently, adware.

I got 43 "warns" on Ghostery with the bug blocking turned off. Turned it on and it dropped to 24.

DIAF, TechEBlog

Five stunning art masterpieces you won't believe were created with MS Excel are either stunning or art or masterpieces

FTFY subby

why

flucto: Stunning as in "stunned into torpor"

Godscrack: I can believe it.

namatad: masterpiece
I dont think you know what that word means.

RassilonsExWife:
Or "stunning"

Or "art"

Came to say subby had the most elastic use of the term "masterpiece" I've ever come across, but saw that was already well taken care of.
/satisfied