Category Archives: Animation

Daily Download 9: Animation in Excel

Posted on 25/09/2012 by dougaj4

The missing post from yesterday’s list was: Drawing in Excel – 2 , with download file: http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/animate.zip Other animation related posts include: By Jingo Dancing Pendulums Yet more pendulums Rotating Hypercubes Animated Pythagoras

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Animated Pythagoras

Posted on 13/02/2012 by dougaj4

Two animatations of a “wordless” proof of Pythaoras’ Theorem provided by SSSF regular PM 2Ring. This animation is a “wordless proof” of Pythagoras’ theorem. The basic design is an interlocking pattern of coloured squares overlaid with “shadow” squares. In most … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Excel on the Cloud With Javascript!

Posted on 16/12/2011 by dougaj4

I have previously linked to a spreadsheet stored on Skydrive, but I have been disappointed that the possibilities for using live spreadsheets are greatly limited by the lack of support for VBA.  It seems that Microsoft have now decided to provide … Continue reading →

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Rotating Hypercubes

Posted on 25/06/2011 by dougaj4

The discussion of dancing pendulums in javascript at SSSF led onto Rotating Hypercubes, which resulted in this javascript animation by forum regular mollwollfumble: 4D Rotations (click to view in a new window, right click to download javascript file) See the SSSF thread for discussion on … Continue reading →

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Yet more pendulums

Posted on 24/06/2011 by dougaj4

Following Dynamically Defined Dancing Pendulums, another three versions of the dancing pendulum theme.  First a POV-RAY version by PM 2Ring, complete with reflections and shadows: POV-Ray Pendulums (click to open in a new window) and an interactive Javascript version: Javascript pendulums by PM2Ring (click … Continue reading →

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