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A Blog Posting About NodeBox
Readers of this forum might be interested in this review of NodeBox I just posted in Oracle's AppsLab blog: http://theappslab.com/2015/08/04/nodebox/ This is the second part of a two part series abou…
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by Frederik
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Sailing Ship
I was working on a NodeBox network that draws bits and pieces of org charts when my wife walked past and said my network looked like a sailing ship. I hadn't tried to make it look like anything, just…
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Audio analysis
Hi everyone! I created generative art based on an audio song that is playing through the device as audioplayer1. I am able to record the animation but the video is exported as empty white screen. How…
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by shanejez
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Hex Clump
Just for fun, a quick little NodeBox network that draws a hexagonal clump of dots. The dots are arranged in concentric rings of hexagrams. Three nodes at the top of the network control dot size, marg…
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by john
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No module named random
Mac os X Yosemite Hi there, I try to connect a Textpath node to a scatter node like in this video : https://vimeo.com/54523012 But, each time I activate the scatter node i've got this message : "No m…
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by Frederik
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ad rondom selction of paths
Hello, I would like to import an illustrator drawing consisted out of 1213 paths into nodebox. It would be great if nodebox could make a ad random selection of paths. So far I imported the illustrato…
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by stievens
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Pythonista? NodeBox in NodeBox?
I like to develop interactive visualizations for the iPad ON the iPad. One great tool for this is the iOS app Pythonista. It's a wonderful IDE. Now that I've discovered NodeBox, I'd love to be able t…
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by Frederik
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Failure to Understand sub-networks
I am fundamentally not understanding the process of grouping into sub networks. I understand the implicit looping and so on, but I just cannot make my sub networks behave as I want them to. For examp…
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by john
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Drop First Column
Attached is an extremely simple but useful little subnetwork called drop1stcol. All it does is remove the first column of a CSV file. It takes a single input from an importcsv node and then behaves e…
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by john
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Retrieve SVG attributes
Is there a way to get attributes from imported SVG, such as the 'id' in this snippet from the source code from an SVG map? I've tried poking around with the Lookup node but haven't found something li…
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by Frederik
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import forms in nodebox
Hello, Is it possible to import a vector form in nodebox to use it instead of circle or other basic geometry? Thanks
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by lucasnijs
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strokeWidth and strokeColor bug
Doing a lookup on strokeWidth works fine UNLESS strokeWidth is zero; in that case the lookup returns a 1. Also, strokeColor is undefined when strokeWidth is zero, so looking it up causes problems if…
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by john
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intersect multiple shapes with compound
Hi there is there a way to intersect one shape with many using the compound box? It does intersect many shapes with one, but the other way round doesn't seem to work. Any help would reduce my copy-pa…
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by bobob
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how to set random rotation to polygons on a grid
Hey guys. I'm trying to do something really simple, creating a grid connected to a polygon and putting a random rotation to each of this polygons. The problem is that the polygons are not rotating ar…
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by shuantsu
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Issue with data visualization, help?
Hello, I've been trying to make a dataviz but can't find a way to make it work. I am relatively new to NodeBox. I used the Metallica example with some adjustments to make my dataviz. [I just need thi…
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by lucasnijs
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grid with random svg
Hi, I would populate a grid with random SVG's but may be I'm approaching the problem from the wrong perspective (see attachment). So what is the right model to accomplish it? thank you in advance, ma…
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by matteo
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Freehand in presentation mode
Hi there, I am encountering a problem in NodeBox 3. I have made a drawing tool that uses a freehand node as data input. I am recording my screen while drawing and I'd like to avoid seeing the freehan…
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by Francesco
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OS X NodeBox 3.0.43 crashes on startup
When I start NodeBox 3.0.43 on OS X 10.10.2, the Starting NodeBox window appears with a progress bar, then a second later it crashes. The crash report is attached. I have Apple's java as well as 1.8.…
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by Frederik
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Multi Line Strings
Sometimes I need to label my visuals with strings from cvs files. This can be frustrating when the strings are long, and need to be broken over multiple lines. Previously I would just write out the s…
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by john
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NodeBox 3 with high resolution screen on Windows
I am trying to use NodeBox 3.0.43 on Windows 8.1 with a high resolution ("UHD") screen. While the menus have a normal size, everything else is unusably tiny. Is there a way to make NodeBox 3 usable o…
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by Frederik
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Texturizer Node
Sometimes I am color constrained when making graphs if for example the figure will appear in an academic setting (black and white, or basic colors only). So perhaps you might want to create some old…
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by john
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Pi Circle
This is perhaps my favourite version of the pi visuals I made purely because it actually uses pi in calculating how many dots will fit on each ring of the graphic.
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by john
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Exporting Certain Area & Saving Sub-Networks
Is there a way to set a specific part of the canvas to export? Is there a way to save sub-networks to the menu that pops up when double clicked? Or any other way? Thanks
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by Rory
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Cycle Flows on the TFL Network
Data from Transport for London on cycle flows. Data are in 13 4 week periods which makes life awkward, but I have translated the periods to months as best as possible (they change every year). The ba…
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London Transport By Day and By Night
I found an open data source of a survey of wonders that asked them to think about how safe they feel on different modes of transport during different times of the day (day/night). It was pretty inter…
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by Rory
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Nodebox to create more "mundane" graphics
I really enjoy nodebox for creating innovative design led graphics. For my more boring bar charts etc. I tended to use matplotlib (the python library). Now I am exploring node box as place to also ma…
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by Frederik
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Fading Fast
The attached NodeBox file includes a handy general purpose subnetwork "fade". It sucks in a fading setting (0 = transparent, 100 = opaque) and applies it to any incoming geometry, even a combined set…
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by Frederik
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Pi walking
This visualisation of pi assigns a color to each digit and an angle. Each time a digit is encountered a rect of the color is created and the origin moves by the relevant angle a distance the height o…
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Pi Dots
In the flurry of activity on Pi day I took the opportunity to make two visualisations based on others I had seen floating around. This one assigns a color to each digit of pi and then creates a squar…
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by Rory
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Recursion
Hello all, I'm trying to create illustrations similar to the attached image (recursive patterns based off phi/golden mean). However I can't find a way to achieve this simply. Is there no recussion su…
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