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Issue with the Exploring Nodes Pattern Tutorial
I have been doing the tutorials for nodebox, but when I try to do the pattern tutorial, the snowflake that I have created is not tessellating properly. It is crowding on each other instead of having…
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by john
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Information is Beautiful entry
This is my entry for this year's Kantar Information is Beautiful awards. Not exactly what I hoped for but like so many projects time got the better of me. I was already using Nodebox to produce simpl…
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by Frederik
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NodeBox 3.0.49
Turns out we didn't really have the right-click bug under control. I went through the code with a fine tooth comb and found a weird edge case where you could trigger the error when dragging nodes whi…
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Is anyone monitoring this forum?
Looks like some spam got posted and has not yet been removed.
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by lucasnijs
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The Isle of Alameda
I live on an island in San Francisco Bay called Alameda. Just for fun I decided to make my own map of the island using NodeBox. I used open source data from OpenStreetMap.org. I had to crop the islan…
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by john
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Text inside a shape (character)
Hi, i'm new to Nodebox and i was wondering if it's easy to make a long string of text fit inside a shape (rectangle) or a character shape (an "R" for example)… Thanks!
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by john
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wiggle offset
Hi, I am trying to apply for numbers only vertically in wiggle offset. Is there any way to separate offset value? Do I have to make new node for it? Can you please help me? Thanks. Chung
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by chung
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color number of objects in grid.
Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to color a certain number of objects placed in a grid. E.g. If I create a grid of 100 rectangles (10x10 grid) can I make it so 63 of them are one color and the r…
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by lucasnijs
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Circle View with Direct Connectors (App to App) Part 2
Dear John, hoped you have an excellent trip last weekend. I tried several times to load Question 2 up to the existing discussion (part1). But it seems to ignore my uploads. So I opened the other issu…
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by andy.treichler
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Circle View with Direct Connectors (App to App) Part 2
Dear John, hoped you have an excellent trip last weekend. I tried several times to load Question 2 up to the existing discussion (part1). But it seems to ignore my uploads. So I opened the other issu…
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by andy.treichler
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Adding Socket Connection functionality to control editor
Hi all, FYI I'm currently adding socket connectivity to the app to control basic stuff like file ops, reload graph, playback etc. Nodebox will act like a server that other apps (like After Effects :)…
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by john
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NodeBox with Jupyter Notebooks?
Has anyone out there managed to use NodeBox networks in or with Jupyter Notebooks? Our team is using Jupyter notebooks for big data analysis. I am creating visualizations from their CSV files using N…
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by john
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Circle View with Direct Connectors (App to App)
For a small project, I created a circle view which allows me to work with two CSV file (Master App File: All details of an application and an app relations: connectors). It allows you to create direc…
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by andy.treichler
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Animating a line
I have a quad line that I want to animate. Specifically the arc represents a flight path, and I want to animate that path, much like you would expect from a flight path, i.e. the curve is revealed as…
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by andy.treichler
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Shutter
I was curious how a camera's diaphragm shutter works, so decided to make one in NodeBox. NodeBox is great for projects like this because it allows you to feel your way through a problem, trying diffe…
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large DB visualization?
Hi all! I have a large DB. 300 tables, 200 relationships, 3000 fields. I would like to visualize it for a non-tech audience. Possibly no need to show ALL the tables. Some tables can be grouped in "lo…
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by dylanomran2
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My Architecture Work from 2008-2016
I created over the last few weeks my own view over my ICT Architecture project work in a big company. Thanks to Nodebox 3 I was able to do things I could not do with MS Visio or Tableau. I love it.Th…
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by john
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Curvy Characters
Here is another fun way to do unspeakable things to innocent fonts. The curvychar subnetwork takes a text string (one character at a time) and adjusts its "curviness". It's great fun to try different…
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by john
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Need help to approach this style of art
Here is what I am trying to accomplish, http://simplify.thatsh.it/ It basically takes an image and simplifies it into very basic elements, Kadinskly style, well his lesser complex works anyway, that…
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path_string node
Attached is a custom node: pathstring. It converts a path to SVG notation. I have also provided a subnetwork, pathtable, that converts that path string into a table of points with attributes (contour…
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by Frederik
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Replace Insides
Here is a simple network which takes strings, converts them to text paths, then replaces the insides of letters (and the dots atop lowercase I and j) with a different shape of your choice. The attach…
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by Frederik
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write_table Node
The attached demo contains a custom node, writetable, that turns any zip map into a csv file. To use it, just attach any node that resolves to a table and double-click (render) the writetable node. I…
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by john
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Spotify API - Queen discography
Hello! I got know Nodebox last week during Frederik de Blesser's presentation at the Visualizing Knowledge seminar here in Helsinki. It's not the easiest thing to get started with, but I felt like my…
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by john
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Polygon Race
I found this mesmerizing animated GIF uploaded anonymously on imgur and reverse-engineered it. The design of dots racing around superimposed polygons is perfect for NodeBox. I was able to recreate it…
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Just a quick question
Hi, I was considering using Node Box for a couple of projects, but I just wanted to know about something a bit specific about your visual programming system. Is there any form of native alternative t…
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packed text
Abusing fit and stack nodes to pack more than 1000 movie names into a poster takes less than 5 seconds, not that bad... go and try different seeds and colors it's one of those 'before you die' lists,…
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by rioch
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Date Format Custom Node
UPDATE: SEE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT... Frederik, On April 3, 2014 you made the following entry in a (now closed) discussion: For the date conversion I've written another node that will make it into Nod…
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by john
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The Green Dot Square Puzzle
I found this puzzle on Quora and decided to solve it using NodeBox... Given twelve dots in a cross pattern the puzzle is to find all possible squares where each corner of the square lands on a separa…
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by john
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NodeBox Version 3.0.46
Hi, I've just released a new version of NodeBox for Mac and Windows that should fix the annoying right-click bug. You can download it and read the release notes. Please let me know if you have issues…
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by rioch
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Question About Coding and Generative Design
Hello, I have a question for people with experience in generative design; Do you guys feel that it is necessary to know computer programming in order to do generative design (the specific field/appli…
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by gicoga