3D-2D Perspective Mapping in Excel – part #2
The first half of this presentation dealt with mapping a 3D scene onto a 2D surface which can be a computer screen, a projection screen or the retina of the eye. By doing so we preserve much of the...
View ArticleInstant 3D-2D Perspective Mapping – the Navigator Functions – a convenient...
This tutorial explains a pair of important user defined functions, the “Navigator_u()” and the “Navigator_v()”. These functions save the user nine columns of formulas by calculating the effects...
View ArticleA Family of Speedometers in Excel
Hi guys, by popular demand, this is a file containing five different animated speedometers and a tachometer (rpm-meter). I can recognize two models: a Toyota Camry and a Ford Crown Victoria. They work...
View ArticleCreating a Speedometer in Excel, Part #1 – tutorial
This is the first half of a tutorial which shows how to create a speedometer in Excel. The model is essentially a 2D scatter chart having as background the picture of a speedometer dial downloaded...
View ArticleCreating a Speedometer in Excel, Part #2 – tutorial
The previous tutorial (first half) explained how to download a speedometer picture from www.flickr.com and how to alter it (delete the needle) using a freeware called Gimp (similar to Photoshop). -...
View ArticleCasual Introduction to Numerical Methods – spring-mass-damper system model –...
This tutorial explains the principles to generating animation for the spring-mass-damper system analyzed in the previous presentations.
View ArticleCasual Introduction to Numerical Methods – spring-mass-damper system model –...
In this tutorial, most of the calculations for the numerical simulation a SMD (spring-mas-damper) system will be consolidated into a single formula, the coordinate formula. In this case, in order to...
View ArticleHow to make a game of PONG in Excel – part #1
This post contains the first part of a series of tutorials demonstrating how to build a lively game of Pong in Excel. The section deals with the bat movement VBA macro, and plotting the “court” or...
View ArticleA Legacy 3D Octal Planetary Model
This is an older model of planetary motion in 3D containing eight planets. A video preview can be watched here.
View ArticleAn Animated 2D Spring Oscillator – video preview
This is a video preview of an animated triple spring mass damper system moving in a 2-dimensional space. The model will work in all versions of excel but it will be slow in 2007 and 2010.
View Article3-Body Planetary System with Options – video preview
A video preview to an older model.
View ArticleA Game of Tetris in Excel – video preview
This is a video preview of an older game of Tetris model in Excel. The model is designed for Excel 2003 or earlier versions and it’s too loaded with graphics to work well in Excel 2007 or 2010. You...
View ArticleBuilding a game of Tetris #1– the generation and the rotation of the...
This is the first section of a tutorial about the creation of a Tetris game in Excel using mainly spreadsheet formulas and very little VBA.
View ArticleAn Analog Clock Model – video preview
This is a video preview of the analog clock series which include a model section and a tutorial section.
View ArticleA Legacy Speedometer Model – video preview
This is a video preview of an older Excel model of a speedometer.
View ArticleA Family of Speedometers – video preview
The current is a preview of a sprite based Excel speedometer model and a series of speedometer creation series of tutorials (#1 and #2)
View ArticleDay and Night Over the Atlantic – video preview
A video preview to a sprite animation model in Excel.
View ArticleCity Lights in North America – video preview
A video preview of yet another sprite animation model in Excel.
View ArticleA Fast Pong Game with Special Effects in Excel 2003 – video preview
This is a video preview to the pong game model developed during a series of ten tutorials as linked in the brackets ( #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10 )
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