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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThis guy makes THIS art with Excel...what's your excuse?
I'm in IT and I can barely auto-sum a column and this 73 year old artist is banging out stuff like this:
I never used Excel at work but I saw other people making pretty graphs and thought, I could probably draw with that, says 73-year old Tatsuo Horiuchi. About 13 years ago, shortly before retiring, Horiuchi decide he needed a new challenge in his life. So he bought a computer and began experimenting with Excel.
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-artist/
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This guy makes THIS art with Excel...what's your excuse? (Original Post)
OriginalGeek
Jun 2013
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hlthe2b
(102,468 posts)1. wow... that's gorgeous
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)2. That is amazing...
I never thought of using Excel for art... Wow.
Aristus
(66,487 posts)3. Incredible.
I'm still amazed by what human beings can accomplish...
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)5. I've heard about that but never looked into it
my daughter got a new tablet for christmas - I think I'll take a look at that Inkscape