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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. Excel can do even more! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    3d Graphics engine in Excel previously on slashdot:
    http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1732220&from=rss

  2. Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents by Kagura · · Score: 3, Funny

    Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents

    Jesus christ, so much for "do no evil"!

    1. Re:Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents by rvw · · Score: 4, Funny

      Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents

      Jesus christ, so much for "do no evil"!

      I believe He was executed as well. I don't know if we can blame Google for it.

    2. Re:Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are thinking of Easter - this is Christmas!

  3. 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...

  4. Re:Nice, however... by ettlz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Huh, yeah. Let's have some boobs instead. Oh, God, I foresee a wave of Spread-em-sheet porn...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

    --
    "I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
  7. Re:Nice, however... by RJFerret · · Score: 5, Funny

    Huh, yeah. Let's have some boobs instead. Oh, God, I foresee a wave of Spread-em-sheet porn...

    Okay, not exactly porn, but you inspired me to produce a nude...