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How to add a menu port to a subnetwork
People occasionally ask how I make the menus in the subnetworks I publish in my library. This is not well-documented, so I thought I'd explain it again in a separate post that might be easier to find…
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by florisdejonge
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abstract self portrait
I'm very new to nodebox and i just can't make my selfportrait work. It's an assignment for school and im truey struggeling with it. i have vectorized my image and ungrouped the shapes, and then i jus…
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by john
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Cartan Node Library 3.7
Cartan Node Library 3.7 Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library. This file was built using over 915,000 nodes, about 1.125 MILLION connections, and over THREE MILLION lines of code in th…
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by john
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Why am I getting this error when opening example projects?
I'm getting java runtime-exception errors when attempting to open example projects from the web. I have made sure java is installed. Unfortunately, I don't know much about programming. Can someone he…
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by Frederik
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"10 Years of Reading"
Hi Nodebox community! I'm a graphic designer who occasionally works with information design/data visualization especially in my personal/self-initiated work. I wanted to share some work I did with No…
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by john
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Voronoi Node
A Voronoi Diagram partitions a plane with points into polygons such that each polygon contains exactly one generating point and every point in a given polygon is closer to its generating point than t…
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Fill Circles Node
FillCircles is the official version of the circle packing nodes developed with Floris using Claude AI. For more about that see: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/8672212182/ai-circle-packing Floris and I (…
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High Precision math in Nodebox
Hello all and John. I have a question about precision. I am doing math with some big numbers and I have been using mpmath in Python to make this work in Python scripts, but I wonder if I can use this…
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by john
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Hier_Map Node
NOTE: This node has been updated. I removed the original post and replaced it with this one.... The next in my series of hierarchy nodes... Hiermap turns a hierarchy into a rectangular map. It does t…
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Curved Line Graphs in Nodebox 3
Hi everyone, I’m new to NodeBox 3, and I’d like to create a line graph (with data points connected by a curve). I have a csv file that I'm importing but I am not sure how to put the correct coordinat…
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by wavetree7
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Place_Text Node
Placetext is a companion to my new placenode. It is specifically designed to place blocks of text Into typographic grids. This is a whole new way of thinking about object placement in Nodebox. Placet…
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by john
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Improvement to Kern Node
I have made a small improvement to my kern node. In the 3.6 release of my library I altered kern so that it would work with my linebreak node. I also allowed you to control the leading (the space bet…
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by john
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Text leading (line spacing)
Hello! I need to add line spacing to the text and I'm trying to do this by adding the lineHeight port to the textPath node metadata. However, I'm getting an error. I would be very grateful for your h…
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by john
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Leading Added to Charpath and Wordpath
I have added a leading (line height) control to my charpath and wordpath nodes. Charpath and wordpath work just like textpath except that instead of returning a single path, they return multiple path…
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Solidify
Solidify is a node which converts a path into an arbitrarily thick fillable shape. It can convert a line into a rectangle, or a rectangle into a square donut. It will take open or closed paths, and c…
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Import_hier Node
My family of hierarchy nodes now make it possible to work with hierarchies inside Nodebox and turn them into charts and maps. But how do you get the actual data INTO the hierarchy? The importhier nod…
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Multi_Switch Node
A few months ago I introduced a new data type, multi-lists: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/8101858422/multi-lists Multi-lists are a way of combining multiple separate lists into a single list. The multi…
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UPDATED Hierarchy Charts AND Random Hierarchy Charts
Attached is the demo of a new node which also contains UPDATES to my recent hierarchy and hierchart nodes. FIRST, the updates. - Hierarchy Node. Now can go up to 24 levels deep (0 to 24). - HierChart…
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by john
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Hogue Genealogy
I just finished a project I've wanted to do for decades: the visualization of a vast family tree left to me (in text form) by a great aunt. The challenge was to draw the tree in a way that makes it e…
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by john
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Subtree
Subtree is to hierarchies what slice is to lists. The subtree node extracts a subtree from a hierarchy. Like slice, it has an invert option which allows you to extract everything BUT the subtree. You…
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Success Puzzle
I occasionally like to use Nodebox to solve puzzles on Quora. Today's solution was particularly satisfying: Question: In how many ways can the letters of the word "success" be arranged such that no t…
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export to SVG on sequoia
Hi, I don't know if this has ever happened to you. When I try to export, a pop-up appears to indicate the format, but the dialogue box to select the destination folder does not appear. Does this happ…
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by john
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Sum By Level Node
Hierarchies become much more powerful when you can associate them with numbers. An org chart can not only show the names of each department or region, but can also show annual sales, current headcoun…
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Shapes (Formerly Symbol)
I decided to change the name of my symbol node to "shapes". This is more fitting, since some of the options are not really symbols. I changed the description to "A collection of useful shapes". I als…
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New Symbol: Infinity Loop
I have added a new shape to my symbol node: infinity loop. Infinity Loop is not a font character with multiple contours. It really is a loop. That is, it's a single closed path that starts in the cen…
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Place Node
See UPDATE below... The place node is designed not just to make it easier to place shapes on the canvas, but also to change the way you THINK about placing shapes on a canvas. In NodeBox, shapes and…
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by john
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Hierarchy and Hierarchy Charts
UPDATE: Latest versions of hierarchy and hierchart can be found here: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/9134398962/updated-hierarchy-charts-and-random-hierarchy-charts I have long enjoyed drawing hierarchi…
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by john
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AI - Voronoi cells
Hi all, Here's are some first attempts on making a Voronoi diagram/tessellation subnode with the use of Claude. After some preliminary tests - 1 and 2 in the file - I gave it this prompt: Can you imp…
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by john
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AI - Circle Packing
EDIT: i split this comment in 2 parts Hi John, Thanks for starting this topic. I went ahead and tried to make a packing script. The results can be found in the attachments. It still has its quirks, s…
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by john
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Change_Item Node
Changeitem replaces, adds, deletes, or alters an item in a list. It saves you the trouble of slicing up a list and then recombining it just to make a simple change. And, importantly, it guarantees th…
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