Has anyone made a spreadsheet with a different tiling yet?
Like the obvious one is hexagons.
Where's my hexagonal spreadsheet?
@foone Hmmmm.... I've been discussing the notion of a 3-axis joystick for working with 3D graphics, sounds like something your spreadsheet would want!
@foone You've reminded me of the form agnostic word processor/spreadsheet/presentation DIY concepts of the late 80s and early 90s. Imma go mourn their loss over a coffee.
@foone I experienced so many emotions after reading this that my wife noticed, and so I told her and she proceeded to experience emotions (she loves spreadsheets).
@foone Ted Nelson's ZigZag is kinda like an N-dimensional spreadsheet where you can rotate dimensions in and out of the two on the screen.
@foone in Battlestar Galactica they always had a notch at the top of their rectangular media, and it made me wonder if their way of drawing grids was different too.
@foone My first thought was about keyboard navigation and now I'm thinking of a keyboard with an hexagonal arrow cluster 🤔
@foone cmon surely you can think bigger than that
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mathematicians-discovered-einstein-tile
@foone why stick to two dimensional simply connected euclidean spaces?
You can tile the hyperbolic plane with heptagons
@foone best I can do is a TSR (yes, as in Terminate-and-Stay-Resident) FRACTAL spreadsheet
@foone Why stop there? Let's go from boring 2D spreadsheets to 3D spreadsheets!
Excel VR will be the new blockbuster VR title! Finance departments all around the globe will love it!
@foone Back in the 70s when spreadsheets were Research, people proposed cells you could rotate in at least three dimensions. So the cell you could see in the grid was the result of a whole other dimensional slice of spreadsheet, and you could select the cell and convolve the dimension that produced it into visibility.
Given how spreadsheets are actually used (functional programming), I think that model would be a big help, but no one seems to have wanted to dig it out of the history of ideas.
@foone I think we need spreadsheets where the cells are on the walls and floor in a game of Hover!