Sci/Tech Excel Is An Art Form: These Beautiful Images Are Proof

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Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year-old Japanese artist, creates amazingly vibrant landscapes using a digital tool most people try to avoid at all costs: Microsoft Excel.

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Shortly before his retirement roughly 13 years ago, Horiuchi bought himself a copy of Excel because he figured he could draw with it and it was far cheaper than design-oriented software from companies like Adobe.

Using autoshapes, a tool in Excel that lets users connect and color custom shapes, Horiuchi builds massively complex images that push the limits of spreadsheet software. And because Excel isn't really an image-creation program, his work is even more impressive than the creations of artists using Microsoft's Paint software to make masterful drawings, for example.

Excel Is An Art Form: These Beautiful Images Are Proof

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Or, you know what, you could use paper and pencil. I know, it sounds crazy, but it actually works! Try it!
 
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Accname said:
Or, you know what, you could use paper and pencil. I know, it sounds crazy, but it actually works! Try it!
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Anyone can make art with a pencil and paper. I know that I sure as hell don't know how to make images with excel, so props to him. I didn't even know you could do that.
 
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KMilz said:
Anyone can make art with a pencil and paper. I know that I sure as hell don't know how to make images with excel, so props to him. I didn't even know you could do that.
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Why would you want to?
 
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Meh. I can't possibly see the advantage to using this over a more efficient piece of software, but you know how people are. Some people like to do things just to prove they can be done.
 
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I'm not sure that's necessarily fair. I'd say that most people would like to be able to do something others can't if they had the opportunity, so I don't see why that makes them stupid.
 
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KMilz said:
I'm not sure that's necessarily fair. I'd say that most people would like to be able to do something others can't if they had the opportunity, so I don't see why that makes them stupid.
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[...]Some people like to do things just to prove they can be done.
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If that is their only motivation, then its a stupid decision.
 
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FireCat said:
Like a Scientist? lol
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I was thinking that, but the scientists that aren't stupid are doing it for far better reasons. Remember programming with water drops? That was pretty stupid - they just did it to prove they could. No practical usage at all.
 
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FireCat said:
Like a Scientist? lol
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What scientist does science just to prove that science can be done? They make science to contribute to the wisdom of our society. Or to kill people; either of those two.
 
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What scientist does science just to prove that science can be done? They make science to contribute to the wisdom of our society. Or to kill people; either of those two.
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Hmm But they do freaky things "that are Unnecessary!"
 
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KaerfNomekop said:
Electricity, filtered water and toilet paper are also unnecessary. Would you rather do without those?
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No it's not! Would you like to have your head cut of and put on a robot or something? May be Necessary?!
 
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No it's not! Would you like to have your head cut of and put on a robot or something? May be Necessary?!
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It is necessary! Your mom pleasured herself with your toothbrush! So, ergo, necessary!
 
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