Category Archives: UDFs

Plotting Mandelbrot in Excel with Matplotlib

Posted on 17/12/2021 by dougaj4

The functions used in the previous post generate an array of integers, the number of iterations for the function return value to exceed 2. This post looks in more detail at how this data can be plotted in Excel using … Continue reading →

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Computing and plotting the Mandelbrot set in Excel …

Posted on 07/12/2021 by dougaj4

… with Python, Numba and pyxll. As promised in the previous post, this post will look at alternative procedures for calculating and plotting the Mandelbrot set with Python based code. The spreadsheet presented here and the associated Python code may … Continue reading →

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Animations from VBA

Posted on 28/11/2021 by dougaj4

A convenient way to create an animation in Excel is to create on-sheet formulas or user defined functions to generate the required data, then use VBA to iterate through the range of input values so that the chart or image … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 5.03

Posted on 22/11/2021 by dougaj4

Following some recent comments Graeme Dennes has released the latest version the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet with some corrections to the test function documentation. The new file is located (as before) at: Tanh-Sinh Quadrature For more information on the last major release … Continue reading →

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Using Matplotlib from Excel with pyxll

Posted on 04/11/2021 by dougaj4

The pyxll documentation has many examples of plotting in Excel using Matplotlib and other packages, but I find the multiple options confusing and hard to follow, so this post works through the examples in the Matplotlib Users Guide tutorial. The … Continue reading →

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