johns wrote:
> Frankly, I think they should take a "serious" look
> at the new Excel Graphics Engine that is included
> in Microsoft Office 2007. An Excel spreadsheet
> makes an excellent bit-mapped display, and imagine
> a 3D coordinate system of 3 Excel spreadsheet
> pairs on each axis. It would be a simple matter to
> dither a coordinate pair for line smoothing, and the
> data structures needed are already built-in. It would
> take very little futher research to complete this
> engine and bring it to the Microsoft Gaming market.
Someone's been reading Gamasutra; a lengthy article on this precise
subject appeared there this past month.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17749