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Does anyone want my library of custom nodes?
Fellow NodeBoxers, I am assembling a library of custom nodes and handy subnetworks that has become my secret weapon. It helps me every day and also allows be to push the envelope, unleashing the hidd…
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by andy.treichler
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Color Picker
Here, for no apparent reason, is a color picker, executed in NodeBox. To change the hue, select the Hue node at the top and scrub the value. The black circle will rise and fall within the vertical hu…
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Poisson Node - Perpetual Motion
Attached is a demo of a new custom node: poisson. Poisson generates random but evenly spaced points within a given rectangular area using Poisson Disk Sampling. It requires the poisson.py python modu…
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Happy Holidays
A simple holiday card. Set the movie to loop and enjoy the falling snowflakes. Best wishes to the NodeBox community. Here's to a creative new year! John
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Switch_Values - A Tutorial
Suppose you wanted to print 4 random numbers and highlight the largest number in red. A natural first attempt might look something like the first screenshot attached: - make a list of 4 integers - co…
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by john
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Show Timing Visually!
Frederik, All, I just had a great idea for a feature that could apply to the whole NodeBox family (NodeBox 3, Nodebox Live, etc.). I want to mention it for the record before I forget... Sometimes Nod…
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by john
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OSC tutorial
Hi there, I am trying to figure out oscreceive node. It gets the data I send with osculator. But the data sent to shapes creates errors like "argument type mismatch" oder a JavaClassCast Exception. I…
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by john
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CPU?
Hi! I wanted to ask you one thing. I have a Macbook 12. He is not the king of speed. As it generates a picture that has many elements, it starts to work much slower. Nodebox 3 is not a demanding prog…
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by john
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Drawing a Chess Piece with find_arc
Drawing complex curves (splines) is tricky in any tool. CADCAM users learn by practicing with drafting diagrams like this widely used diagram of a chess knight (attached). In order to do this kind of…
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Other programs
Hello everyone, as a person who creates in everyday life in matter, in my free time I started programming. I mainly care about 2D geometry. And I must admit that I tried Touch designer, openframework…
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by john
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CNC draw
Hi! Do any of you use cnc to draw your drawings? If so, which one does he use? Can easily connect to macos.
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Dirt
Forgive me for asking a lot of questions but I'm totally excited when I discovered a nodebox. On a daily basis I deal with generative art, the more I am happy. I have a question for you, how to make…
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by Patryk
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Render Center
Hi, do you have any way for the project you made to fit in the rendering area? Not to do it manually
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by Patryk
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Using Json to store state
Hi, I'm new in NodeBox but I'd like to show what I've done using Json. I know that what I achieved is far away from the purpose of NodeBox but I've used Json to write data in a file to store the stat…
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by simone
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random list of length 100 with values of list of four [0, 90, 180, 270]
How can I get such a list? A sample node connected to a pick node with amount 100 just gives a list of lentgh 4.
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by john
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Conway's Game of Life
UPDATE: New version attached in reply to this comment... Attached is a proof of concept NodeBox network that generates an open-ended number of life patterns based on Conway's Game of Life. If you are…
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by john
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Delete a circle
Hi, how can I remove the first circles marked in the picture?
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by Patric
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Grids?
There’s something about grids in Nodebox that I’m not quite understanding. I have set up a Nodebox file where I am plotting 150x150 squares onto a grid. I have set up my grid with 10 columns and 10 r…
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by ernstnext
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Wine Rack
Here is a very simple abstract piece based on a wine rack from a Douro Valley winery in Portugal. It actually looks pretty similar to the photo I took. The network is built using my Hexgrid node alon…
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Alhambra Tiles: Courtyard of the Myrtles
I recently had the privilege of visiting The Alhambra in Grenada, Spain - a Mecca for the mathematically inclined because of its many marvelous tilings. I plan to use NodeBox to deepen my understandi…
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by john
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Cannot create pystring with non-byte value
Hi, I'm a student learning nodebox in class. While following this tutorial (https://www.nodebox.net/node/documentation/tutorial/getting-started.html), a messege poped out and none of my node worked.…
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by B
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How can I do a semicircle?
Hi! I would lo know how I can create a semi circle and add values without having the all circle. I tried with the text doens't follow the arc lines. Also I tried with rotation but makes the circle fu…
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by john
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NodeBox3 on Raspberry Pi
Hi - I'd like to try nodebox on a pi4 (please tell me if this is a fool's errand). I've tried the linux download through terminal and got this: pi@raspberrypi: $ git clone https://github.com/nodebox/…
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by Ben
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RaceTrack
Animation of two cars (blue and red dots) racing along a track. Although the cars move at the same speed, they seem to pull ahead and fall behind at various points during each circuit. This happens b…
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Cartan Node Library 1.0
UPDATE: Node Library 2.0 is now available including everything below plus 17 additional nodes. See https://forum.nodebox.net/t/19229950/cartan-node-library-2-0 After months of labor I am pleased to p…
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Waveform
As a newbie I was frustrated by the wave node. It's a simple mathematical function: give it an X and it will spit out a Y. But I wanted and expected to actually see the different kind of waves. Of co…
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Clipart Orrery
NOTE: See next comment for a slightly improved version of the ndbx file. This whimsical orrery animation is made with public domain clipart. It includes 11 distinct motions. The simple network featur…
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by john
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Evolve
NOTE: This node was updated on July 5. If you downloaded it before then you should re-download this version. Evolve is a general purpose animation node which allows you to gradually change various pr…
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Units pixels points and mm
Dear community, I stumbled on the question of units inside the NodeBox application. What is internal logic of handling them? I was assuming that number for height for example is the abstract unit. Th…
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by john
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Gradients + Images?
Hi — is there any solve for displaying raster images in Nodebox? Additionally, is there any planned support for things like gradients, shadows, blurs, and other basic graphic operations? Also if any…
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by Frederik