3D Excel Space Simulation

Here's a simulation of the solar system which rotates on all three axises at the same time. Not to scale. This is done with Excel

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Excel
• Simulation
• Space
• 3D
• Animation

[GreatAmericanMoneyTV]

This is reeeeaaaallly cool. Why can't I find you on Excelville? You should be using skills like that to get paid.

[cybercab]

@GreatAmericanMoneyTV thanks. Not sure I'm up for all that though.

[ballproductions]

i dont get the point

[cybercab]

The point is that I found a way to rotate objects in 3D space in Excel. This is not what Excel was designed to do. I thought it was pretty neat.

[tcheightyeight]

Nice! I take it you used Visual Basic to do it...

I made a computer game where you can design/build your own space ship and fly it around and shoot at stuff... it's still in the process of being finished but so far it's working pretty well!

[cybercab]

No, actually. Visualize you're looking at a grid overlaid over a 3d object. I used geometry to translate 3D into 2D. Then you can spin it in 3D. Does that make sense? Check out Zarbod's 3D cubes spinning. He did the same thing.

[ghostmarine1000]

someone was bored lol damn cool

[WSUUUUUU]

Uh, just to clarify since I'm a bit fuzzy on this, but when you say translating 3D to 2D would it be like projecting points on a 3D object onto a 2D plane (like how a shadow of an object is a 2D representation of a 3D object). Or in other words a linear transformation from R3 to R2?

[JustBeConfident]

please share our technologies together if possible.