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Reading through the challenges, the last one seemed like a big leap. Made me think of the “learn to draw” meme that progresses quickly from simple shapes to a simple cartoon and a god leap to a super realistically rendered pencil drawing.

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It might seem complicated at a glance, but if you look through the implementation guidelines / rules / description, it's not that big of a leap. It has clear requirements and the paper[1] outlines everything together with example code (in both JavaFX and ScalaFX), and it's not a "god leap" if you have at least a bit of experience building UIs.

- [1] "Comparison of Object-Oriented and Functional Programming for GUI Development" - Eugen Kiss - Page 49 - 3.9 Cells

Neither is it really a "god leap" in the art analogue either, that's what makes it a particularly apt analogy, I think. The implication in the art example is "iterate the above techniques a large number of times to obtain a finished result like this". It seems like a "god leap" because most people don't see the thousands/millions of iterated steps, they see the finished product as a finished product without the intuition of the component parts. That does seem to apply to the Cells project here: most of the same underlying components but yes iterated far enough and long enough it seems like a more insurmountable leap than it should without the right intuition pump.

The spreadsheet task does rather feel like "draw the rest of the owl", yes.

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