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  1. Order Left to Right Top to Bottom

    It is sometimes necessary to sort a set of points into a predictable LRTB (Left to Right, Top to Bottom) order. The first time I had to do this I thought it was too unusual to merit inclusion in my N…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

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  2. Binary Clock - dec_to_bin Node

    Attached is a quick, simple binary clock face. Years ago I used to sell this design as a working analog clock. I still have one hanging in my living room. I actually made it to demo my latest node: d…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

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    by john

  3. Cartan Node Library 2.3

    Attached is the latest upgrade to my node library! Version 2.3 includes 92 nodes. All nodes are free for use with no restrictions. To use: with your current project open use File/Open Recent to open…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

    28 replies

    by florisdejonge

  4. Alt_Grid, Hexagons, and Diamonds

    Here are THREE new nodes for your grid and tessellation needs! This effort grew out of a request from Floris for a more flexible hexgrid, during a Cartan Node Library discussion thread: https://forum…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

    1 reply

    by florisdejonge

  5. Typography

    Hello everyone, Recently, I was discussing the particulars of typography in Nodebox with John. Because letter spacing can’t be controlled with the textpath node I’ve experimented with stacking the le…

    NodeBox 3 florisdejonge From the old forum

    9 replies

    by john

  6. Circle of Fifths

    A circle of fifths chart made in Nodebox3! A useful tool for all musicians, I made this because I love music.

    Show your Work 3Cat From the old forum

    1 reply

    by john

  7. Menus displaying meta and keyboard commands not working

    Have fired up Nodebox again for the first time in a while... very happy to see there has been an update - thank you so much for your work. Unfortunately I have a problem. My menus are all showing 'me…

    NodeBox 3 Tim Holmes From the old forum

    8 replies

    by er1k

  8. Sierpinsky node?

    Hey beautiful brains, I had this sudden urge to try and make a Sierpinsky fractal node that generates essentially: https://mathigon.org/course/fractals/sierpinski::text=The%20Sierpinski%20triangle%20…

    Show your Work Julian Gosper From the old forum

    6 replies

    by john

  9. Number formatting

    Hi, can anyone kindly explain why after importing the CSV file, some numbers format changes in nodebox? The problem seems to relate to the 1000 separators, but when using separators it seems to cause…

    NodeBox 3 suzie From the old forum

    6 replies

    by suzie

  10. Why I still care about NodeBox

    Over the course of my long career I have been both a coder and a designer. My title now is design architect. Always I have been an architect of the invisible. To do my work I have penetrated to the h…

    General Discussion john From the old forum

    11 replies

    by john

  11. PC Shortcut Bug - How to Download 3.0.51

    Freny (proceduraldisarray) writes: "I had a quick question related to NodeBox. I'm on version 3.0.52 using it on windows (10). This version has some wierd keyboard shortcuts. For eg. save is Meta+S.…

    NodeBox 3 john From the old forum

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  12. Nodebox on macOS Monterey and M1with Rosetta

    Nodebox appears to work fine on M1 Mac with Rosetta. Cartans Library works individually, but not when rendering the full chart using the combine node to render all the nodes.

    NodeBox 3 D From the old forum

    1 reply

    by john

  13. NodeBox NFT Art Show!

    Fellow Nodeboxers, NodeBox was created for generative artists and over the years many of us have made some great art. Some Nodebox artists have taken the plunge into the world of NFTs (Non Fungible T…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

    15 replies

    by florisdejonge

  14. Regex Highlight Node

    Hi everyone! I really love Nodebox. But as a motion graphics artist with clients that don't always have a ton of extra time for lookdev and R&D, I don't often have a chance to use it as much as I'd l…

    Show your Work joe.s.clay From the old forum

    2 replies

    by joe.s.clay

  15. Scattering Ellipses Without Overlapping

    Seohyo asks "Is it possible to make scattered ellipses without overlapping?" She provides an example with ellipses of different sizes. Attached is one way of doing this using the "ScatterEvenly" node…

    NodeBox 3 john From the old forum

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  16. [ANN] Nodebox 1 on Python 3.8 Preview

    It's far from perfect but in a usable state. https://github.com/karstenw/nodebox-pyobjc/releases

    NodeBox 1 karstenwo From the old forum

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    by karsten

  17. Calculating a new list from two lists?

    Is it posible to combine two lists with a calculation? For example: List A: 1, 2, 3 List B: 3, 2, 1 List C (output of the node I need): 4, 4, 4 Ist this possible? Which node do I need?

    General Discussion cubehexagonal From the old forum

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    by john

  18. drawing individual triangles from a list of points?

    Hello, I'm trying to draw irregular triangles along a freehand line by breaking the line into points and drawing a vertical line at every other point. Now i would like to have triangles drawn, the en…

    NodeBox 3 ppape From the old forum

    4 replies

    by ppape

  19. Amount of Vaccines assigned to Department by Lab - Circular Sankey Diagram

    Hi everyone! I want to visualize the amount of vaccines assigned to each Department by Lab, I have the idea to visualize this information in a "double circular Sankey"(See Image). I have followed thi…

    NodeBox 3 juan.rozo23 From the old forum

    5 replies

    by john

  20. Vaccine by State/Department

    Hi everyone! In this visualization I represent the number of COVID-19 doses assigned to each "State"(Here we called them Department) within the Colombian territory. Something strange that happened to…

    NodeBox 3 juan.rozo23 From the old forum

    3 replies

    by john

  21. cannot creat pystring with non-byte value

    Hi, I'm a student learning nodebox in class. While following this tutorial a messege poped out and none of my node worked. "Cannot create PyString with non-byte balue" I attached my screenshot below.…

    NodeBox 3 Yujin From the old forum

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    by john

  22. Percentage to Color

    Hi everyone! I'm working on a data visualization and I found myself stuck. I want to visualize the total number of vaccines received by the Colombian government and, I want to colorize the visualizat…

    NodeBox 3 juan.rozo23 From the old forum

    4 replies

    by john

  23. Key Point Snap And Align

    Enable the animate mode, and move your mouse around in the render view. I want to fork the NodeBox source code and add mouse interaction feature. But it is a little trouble for me to build the compil…

    Show your Work ahuman From the old forum

    3 replies

    by ahuman

  24. Another code example

    Just look at the attachments. It's a simple example. Before I make this code example, I was thinking about placing some constraints to draw a graph or 3D model. We can place a dependent variables (ce…

    Show your Work ahuman From the old forum

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    by ahuman

  25. Font_Table Node

    Attached is a custom node that returns a table, organized by family and font name, of all fonts currently installed in your system. It requires fonttable.py (included) which must be added to your cod…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

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  26. Spiral Node

    My spiral node draws five types of spiral: Fermat, Square, Archimedean, Logarithmic, and Fibonacci. It outputs them as either a key set of points or as a clean bezier path. Requires makecurve.py (inc…

    Show your Work john From the old forum

    5 replies

    by john

  27. Has Anyone Tried NodeBox Under MacOS Big Sur?

    I don't see any reason it wouldn't work, but it would be nice if someone already running Big Sur could confirm. Thanks, John

    General Discussion john From the old forum

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    by john

  28. NodeBox Java NoClassDefFoundError

    When I ran the command "ant run" though the build is successful, I am getting the following error in run. run: [java] Jul 25, 2021 5:16:08 PM nodebox.Log info [java] INFO: Starting NodeBox [java] [ja…

    NodeBox 3 cs_velayutham From the old forum

    2 replies

    by john

  29. Control Position / Input Position

    How do I send the position input the right values? I want to control for example only the x - axis of a position. When I connect a wave with the position input it usually controls x & y. Would like t…

    NodeBox 3 franklin From the old forum

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    by john

  30. Movie Export not working in linux

    Hi, I use nodebox 3 in my ubuntu 21.04 system. I meet issue when exporting my work to movie. I can see rendering process of each frames, but after it finish rendered I didn't see anything in my direc…

    NodeBox 3 Mervyn Tham Wu Cuan From the old forum

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    by pyfave