Gregory's ServerHas anyone made a spreadsheet with a different tiling yet?
Like the obvious one is hexagons.
Where's my hexagonal spreadsheet?
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 @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! @alcinnz if you are not already aware you may be interested by the existence of https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/3dconnexion-spacemouse-pro-wireless-bluetooth-edition/apd/ac826799/pc-accessories fun fact it was used as a prop on the show The Expanse as part of the ship controls https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/7o3ri2/something_i_realized_the_expanse_was_ingenious_to/   @antijingoist @foone At some point between lotus 1-2-3 and Claris Works I recall playing with a janky 'everything' tool that wasn't hypercard or any of the 'wordiverse'. Unsure if tech demo. Dad was always bringing weird hardware and software home. Will see if he recalls. @antijingoist @foone It is looking increasingly likely my child brain conflated things. But possibly it was AUIS or similar? @antijingoist @foone Or this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite) Which, against all odds, is still a thing  @foone@digipres.club that's it, I'm refusing to do my accounting on anything that doesn't offer a Penrose tiling  @foone oh shoot, now I have to make this... THANKS FOONE. I'll let you know... 😄 @foone I'm thinking 3d coordinate system, the middle of your sheet is 0,0,0. That way you can still do things like SUM(0:0:0, 0:10:0]) but! it can go diagonal as well. I'm considering how to do complex selections, I think some fun can be had by having paths instead of just boring ranges.  @foone It wasn't a spreadsheet, but I seem to recall a game creation toolkit that used a spreadsheet-like interface for text dialogs. In addition to columns and rows, it did 'over' and 'under' (accessible by holding a key) for font choices and text effects so that every cell was connected to six other cells.  @foone could take it to the extreme with the [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_problem#The_hat]("einstein hat" tile). @foone@digipres.club relevant thoughts on hexagonal spreadsheets:   @foone You've presumably heard about Ted Nelson's zzstructures, right? @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.   @clementd@framapiaf.org @foone@digipres.club You can sorta already do this with a standard qwerty keyboard. Instead of "WASD" keys as arrow replacements, you can use WEDXZA as a six-direction navigation pad.  @foone cmon surely you can think bigger than that https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mathematicians-discovered-einstein-tile @foone@digipres.club Gimme my Penrose tiling spreadsheet! @foone why stick to two dimensional simply connected euclidean spaces? You can tile the hyperbolic plane with heptagons  @foone this with all the k-uniform tilings would be sick (and probably not useful) from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_k-uniform_tilings  @oblomov @foone if infinitely nesting spreadsheets is enough for you, then you can simply use TreeSheets, which is actively maintained, and even useful, for the type of person who wants to use org-mode but doesn't like plain text very much.   |
@foone foone that is not what hexagonal architecture is