Category Archives: Arrays

PView Function

As promised in the previous post, here are further details of the PView User Defined Function (UDF), included in the IP2 spreadsheet, which can be downloaded (including full open source code) from IP2.ZIP. The PView UDF works by multiplying the 3D … Continue reading

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Charting a Mathematical Function with Defined Names

This post is a compilation of information from Stephen Bullen, Jan Karel Pieterse, and George Lungu.  To quote JKP “When doing mathematics, wouldn’t it be nice if we could type an equation into a cell in Excel and immediately see … Continue reading

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Faster Ferns

I have modified the fern input parameters in the spreadsheet presented in the previous post to match the layout used by Barnsley and others, so that examples such as those given at the Wikipedia article can be entered directly.  The … Continue reading

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Plotting Ferns

Over at Daily-Dose-of-Excel mrt has posted an interesting VBA version of a Matlab program that used an Iterated Transfer Function to plot a graph resembling a fern.  The original Matlab code came from Dr Tom Wood, and Michael’s VBA version works just fine, … Continue reading

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Working with FEM data and using the dictionary object

This post features an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to count the number of different element types (beams, plates, bricks and links) and the number of node restraints at each end of listed beams from a finite element model.  The … Continue reading

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