FlowSheet quick-start

A FlowSheet visualization is a clickable picture of a spreadsheet. Click on a cell to see the cell's inputs and/or outputs.




The FlowSheet control panel shows details of the cell you clicked on (or the cell under your mouse). That is also where you choose which sheet to display, and how to display it.






The computations in a formula are represented by boxes of various shapes, and are connected to their input numbers by colored "flow-lines" (with fatter lines representing bigger numbers). Here are the current FlowSheet symbols:



Addition/subtraction
Add 5 + 10		Subtract 5-10		Subtract 10-5
		(note negative output is striped)





Multiplication Multiply 5 * 10	Division Divide 5/10 Divide 10/5	Power Exponentiate 1.05^4
All FlowLines of a given color are scaled together, so the largest-valued one is the widest visible and smaller magnitudes are proportionally narrower. Negative values share this scaling, but are striped instead of solid.





Now try it!





Note: Requires up-to-date Java plugin, and may not work on Mac OS.