You know, actually, this is a fair point. I'm almost ashamed of myself for not being more open-minded. What's better than a hack to tickle a curiosity?
This is a cute hack, but why?
(Mostly because it doesn't take into consideration using text glyphs _inside_ each cell and a second color to add texture)
I tried this out - but it looks like the images are squished. In a 600x422 image I tried, the columns were originally .03" in Excel. Adjusting them to .1" seemed to fix the perspective.
I just want to alert people to a bug in this piece of software they'll doubtless be using in mission-critical applications.
Last time I came across this idea (2011) a I made my own version that rendered to html. Upload an image, place each pixel's rgb value in a 2d array, send it back to the client as a html table where each cell's background color is set to a pixel's rgb value. It comes out looking blocky and I couldn't figure out why.
Pretty sure Excel supports copy-pasting a table from the browser directly into Excel so you can do that too and just set each cell's height and width to 1px to see the image in Excel.
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Come on, let's go full libaa!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442041
I just want to alert people to a bug in this piece of software they'll doubtless be using in mission-critical applications.
Here it is: http://excelimagemaker.apphb.com/
Pretty sure Excel supports copy-pasting a table from the browser directly into Excel so you can do that too and just set each cell's height and width to 1px to see the image in Excel.