10 Unusual, Sometimes Crazy, Sometimes Wonderful Uses for Excel: From a Drum Machine to a Roller Coaster Simulator
Fate has firmly tied me to PowerPoint, but when I think of Excel, my mind is thrilled by its brilliantness – an infinite table in the language of the universe, and infinite tables give infinite possibilities…
Isometric illustration
Alexei Shelkovnikov creates cute three-dimensional-isometrical in isometrics in Excel and tells you how to do it.
Drum Machine
Dylan Tallchief made a drum machine in Excel.
🔗 Download Drum Machine in Excel
Spreadsheet Animation
Joe Penna made a stop motion animation in Excel. Please check behind the scenes video as well.
HDR Photography
Kevin Chen explains the algorithm on HDR imaging and implements HDR in a spreadsheet.
🔗 HDR Imaging in Microsoft Excel
Art
T.Horiuchi is painting pictures with Excel.
🔗 Pasokonga paintings by Tatsuo Horiuchi
Neural Network
© Diane Picchiottino
A Neural Network implemented in Microsoft Excel solving a Travelling Salesman Problem of 10 cities in the United States
Video Player
This is an Excel sheet, that plays Video and Audio files you have the codec for.
Roller Coaster Simulator
George Lungu created a roller coaster simulator in Excel.
🔗 Download from Excelunusual.com
Game Classics: Pac-Man, Tetris, Doom
Nobuya Chikada made Pac-Man in Excel.
InvisibleRain made Tetris in Excel.
Nobuaki Tanaka launched Doom in Excel.
Music Video
Phil Clandillon, Steve Milbourne and Svetozar Batoev made a music video in Excel for the “Rock ’n’ Roll Train” song by AC/DC.
