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HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video]

339 points| rayshan | 8 years ago |youtube.com | reply

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[+] aeleos|8 years ago|reply
This is very similar in style to my favorite presentation and paper of all time, titled On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint [0]. The research, presentation and paper were all created inside of powerpoint and it is probably the greatest thing ever made. If you enjoyed the above video you will definitely enjoy this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

[+] IncRnd|8 years ago|reply
That was a great video! Unfortunately, clicking on each cell's entries really slows down computations.

At National Supercomputing Center For Energy and the Environment we retrofitted all the PowerPoints to use timed animations. Now all computations execute in constant time. There is no need to click! As a special bonus, the code is no longer susceptible to side-channel timing attacks.

[+] romwell|8 years ago|reply
The style seems to be clearly inspired by the said awesome presentation (e.g. the inclusion of the "Motivation: N/A" slide).
[+] JepZ|8 years ago|reply
For those who are wondering who the hell calls his software 'MatheAss': Its German and could be translated as 'Math Ace'.
[+] jimmies|8 years ago|reply
Among all the software that came out of Microsoft, Excel is one fine software. The other one is Solitaire.
[+] tinus_hn|8 years ago|reply
Excel is quite powerful but it also tries to do too much and does a lot of it badly.

Solitaire does one thing and it does it quite well.

[+] BuildTheRobots|8 years ago|reply
Very entertaining and well delivered talk; it not only does what the title says, but also explains some of the math and magic behind making HDR images.
[+] ubermonkey|8 years ago|reply
I'm reminded of the oft-linked Goldbloom quote in Jurassic Park. ;)

I'm also reminded of a guy I knew in college. He would LOVE this, because when we were working together at a university computer lab, he was the guy who would learn a tool, and then use that tool to the exclusion of all else, even to the point of absurdity.

The only tool he really knew when he started working there was Lotus, and he ended up figuring out how to automate all sorts of network administration tasks in Lotus macros.

[+] post_break|8 years ago|reply
I wish I could find the article about the guy who wrote a program in excel for working with digital surround sound like 5.1 and 7.1 Dolby.
[+] jonplackett|8 years ago|reply
Love the little joke about the sublime text pop up.
[+] chuckdries|8 years ago|reply
Anyone know what "!!Con" is? I can't google for it, I just get the dictionary definition of "con"
[+] IncRnd|8 years ago|reply
It's a little known fact, but Powershell runs with Excel as the internal execution engine. The secret is actually hidden in plain sight. Just look at the name for a clue...

Powershell = Powexcel = Powered by Excel