Category Archives: Arrays

Charting a Mathematical Function with Defined Names

Posted on 15/12/2010 by dougaj4

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

Posted on 03/10/2010 by dougaj4

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

Posted on 27/09/2010 by dougaj4

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

Posted on 26/09/2010 by dougaj4

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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SplineBeam update

Posted on 20/06/2010 by dougaj4

Previous SplineBeam post I have modified the SplineBeam spreadsheet to allow input of a single span (simply supported or with end constraints), and to optionally allow input of the position of intermediate nodes, rather than dividing each span into equal segment lengths.  This … Continue reading →

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