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Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Awesome by metlin · · Score: 4, 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...

  2. Except... this is clearly a PR piece by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. Idle? by pjt33 · · Score: 3, 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.

  4. How fitting ... by Lazy+Jones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using a spreadsheet as a graphics program is about as efficient as using a browser to run office applications ...

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    1. Re:How fitting ... by LoudMusic · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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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    2. Re:How fitting ... by Lazy+Jones · · Score: 2, Insightful
      That - and it adds a whole layer of instability on top of your OS (browsers/JS need to be stable too).

      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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  5. [Offtopic] Why is this in tech? by empaler · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not that I dislike the story - I just think it should be in Idle, not in Tech.