Category Archives: Drawing

Daily Download 8: Drawing in Excel

Today’s download includes all download files and posts relating to drawing in Excel, other than those dealing with animation, digitising, or 3D perspective projection, which will be covered in the next three days. Blog posts dealing with drawing in Excel: … Continue reading

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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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Revision to CSpline2.xls

It was recently reported to me that the cubic spline spreadsheet CSpline2.xls (posted here) was crashing on loading in Excel 2003.  It seems that the problem was with the ChartSpline function, and that there are no problems if this function is … 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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