Category Archives: Animation

Circle Limit III animation

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

Enjoy: And papers by the artist on how to do it available at: http://bulatov.org/math/1107/ Update 16th Nov 12: Comments and more links from PM2Ring: That image is an example of a tessellation of the hyperbolic plane, in the Poincaré disc … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 9: Animation in Excel

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

The missing post from yesterday’s list was: Drawing in Excel – 2 , with download file: http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/animate.zip Other animation related posts include: By Jingo Dancing Pendulums Yet more pendulums Rotating Hypercubes Animated Pythagoras

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Animated Pythagoras

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Two animatations of a “wordless” proof of Pythaoras’ Theorem provided by SSSF regular PM 2Ring. This animation is a “wordless proof” of Pythagoras’ theorem. The basic design is an interlocking pattern of coloured squares overlaid with “shadow” squares. In most … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Excel on the Cloud With Javascript!

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

I have previously linked to a spreadsheet stored on Skydrive, but I have been disappointed that the possibilities for using live spreadsheets are greatly limited by the lack of support for VBA.  It seems that Microsoft have now decided to provide … Continue reading →

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Rotating Hypercubes

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

The discussion of dancing pendulums in javascript at SSSF led onto Rotating Hypercubes, which resulted in this javascript animation by forum regular mollwollfumble: 4D Rotations (click to view in a new window, right click to download javascript file) See the SSSF thread for discussion on … Continue reading →

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Yet more pendulums

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

Following Dynamically Defined Dancing Pendulums, another three versions of the dancing pendulum theme.  First a POV-RAY version by PM 2Ring, complete with reflections and shadows: POV-Ray Pendulums (click to open in a new window) and an interactive Javascript version: Javascript pendulums by PM2Ring (click … Continue reading →

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Dancing Pendulums

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

This animation was produced in response to a video of real pendulums performing similar tricks: Not having an animation program I thought I’d use the finite element program Strand7.  Modelling the pendulums was easy, just 15 beam elements with a … Continue reading →

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New Excel Engineering Blog

Posted on November 26, 2010 by

I just found Excel Unusual, which has been going since September this year.  Here’s what the Author says: “Finding engineering work quite un-challenging lately I decided to start this blog in which to share cool ways of solving engineering problems or … Continue reading →

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By Jingo

Posted on March 18, 2009 by

Dick Kusleika at Daily-Dose-of-Excel recently posted a video of an animated bingo spreadsheet, using the Jing screen capture program. I had previously posted a still image of my Newton’s Cradle animation, which rather spoils the point, so here it is … Continue reading →

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Newton’s Cradle

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

Previous animation post I have added a Newton’s Cradle animation to the animation file posted previously: Animation.zip The animation finds the correct period for the input string length and starting angle, and displays the movement of the balls in real … Continue reading →

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