Painting with Maths in Google Sheets

Inigo Quilez shows how to paint a picture by writing formulas in Google Sheets, with each spreadsheet cell acting as a pixel. He builds up the image, a flower, purely from mathematical functions.

HN people share it as a delightful example of image-making from pure maths, and as a gentler companion to Quilez's other painting-with-maths videos.

“Inigo Quilez (of Shadertoy fame) once created an animation using the cells of a spreadsheet”