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Does anyone know a 3D spreadsheet program? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by IndigoGollum@lemmy.world to c/softwareoptions@lemmy.world

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Occasionally i need a 3D spreadsheet for something that's very hard or tedious to do in a regular 2D spreadsheet like LibreOffice Calc. The only relevant program i can find is Xcubes (no Linux support) or Minecraft i guess if i try hard enough to make spreadsheets in it (a block of floating lecterns, or maybe signs on glass).

Does anyone know a program that can organize data in more than two dimensions, even if it lacks stuff like the math operations that make Calc or Excel better than graph paper? Better if it's FOSS but i'll take what i can get.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You might want to look into GNU Octave, it's like an open source version of Matlab which is often used for managing high dimensional data.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave

A couple other approach depending on the data and use are using relational database, storing the data in a database normalized form, then using a declarative style language like SQL to combine or exclude data in operations. And if it's mostly physics spacetime coordinates xyz+t tensor frameworks and libraries are built on top of most popular general purpose programming languages (python, c, java, etc) for that purpose.