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Link_path
Today's new node: linkpath. See UPDATE below. Linkpath generates a horizontally or vertically oriented path, curved or rigid, between two points. It's an alternative to the standard link node. The No…
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by john
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I'm creating a nodes based developing system
I'm creating a web-based application that allows users to create and run visual programming workflows using a node-based interface. This took inspiration of Blender Geometry nodes, Nodebox and Node-r…
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by shuantsu
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DNA
Experiment with sin function
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by shuantsu
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Isometric cube
Simple 3d cube with lines on circle paths.
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by shuantsu
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How to make a grid of grids?
Hey guys I have a shape made with connected ordered dots on a grid. Now I want to make a grid of this shape. But that is not working. Can anyone point me where I am missing?
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by shuantsu
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Nice Mistake
Good day all, sometimes you start Nodeboxing with a goal in mind that you haven't achieved, but then you're so happy with the unwanted result that you stick with it. :) I experimented with creating T…
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by lastvector
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Label Colors
Here, as promised, is my new labelcolors node. Labelcolors was designed to colorize the labels produced by my labelmaker node, but they will also work with any grouped label consisting of a container…
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Labelmaker
SEE UPDATE BELOW. Making labels is harder than you might think. By "labels" I mean titles or short phrases inside boxes or dots or stars in an org chart, edge graph, family tree, flow chart or other…
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by john
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Experiment - Foo Fighters?
Starting to get the hang of it, still some janky workarounds because I don't know the best way to do things. I have to look through the other posts here to get some ideas. I really wish there were be…
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by lastvector
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Sudo 3D Structure
One of my first projects using NodeBox coming from blender. Seems like a really cool program and looking to learn more about it.
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by Alec
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Conant Gasket
My conant node generates a "Conant Gasket" pattern. I was uncertain whether it was node-worthy, but after posting a still image and an animation that attracted some attention on Instagram, I decided…
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by lucasnijs
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Ripple Node
This is a cool one. Ripple randomly undulates the boundary of a path or shape using 4-dimensional noise. It's great for creating amoebae with oozing pseudopods or a jellyfish with gently wafting tent…
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Orderings IMPROVED
This is spring cleaning day in the Cartan Node Library. Another improved node: orderings. The orderings node returns a list of all the possible ways you could reorder n items where n varies from 1 to…
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NodeBox and AI
I'd like to start a wide-ranging discussion about the intersection of Nodebox and AI (Artificial Intelligence). A few years ago someone suggested using ChatGPT to write NodeBox documentation. I tried…
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by john
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US Measles data visualisation
Hi all, I'm currently teaching data visualisation to local energy company's data analysts and I had as an example this beautiful WSJ measles epidemic before and after vaccination visualisation. https…
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by john
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Add Arrow
I already have an arrow node that lets you make arrows from scratch. But sometimes you need to add arrows to existing paths, which can be a tad cumbersome, even with my tangent node. This should be e…
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by abdu
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Seamless animation
As discussed here I wanted to talk about seamless animation or loops. In preperation I listed some information regarding this from different places which can function a bit as a knowledge base on the…
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by john
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Improvement to Mask Node
The mask node now automatically applies the color of the input path (as the clip node does). Other than that, the node works just as it did before. This improvement was suggested by Floris. Thanks, F…
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Noise Loop Node
It's official! We now have a seamless looping noise node. Noiseloop was developed in close collaboration with longtime Nodebox artist Floris de Jonge. Floris asked for a way to create seamless loopin…
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Match List Node
Another node that grew out of my recent collaboration with Floris. Matchlist takes a list and repeats and/or clips it so that it matches the length of a reference list. Whenever you have multiple lis…
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Subsets Node
See UPDATE below... Here is the official release for the node developed with Floris in this thread: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/8497692882/multi-diff-list Subsets Subsets randomly divide a list of it…
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by john
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TUTORIAL - List Matching and Node Ranges
NodeBox has two features that largely control how it works: list matching and port ranges. Both features are subtle and can be confusing. But to master NodeBox you really have to understand both feat…
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by john
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Multi_diff_list
Hi all, I find myself quite often making this network (or similar) again and again. It uses the difflist node from the Cartan library, but I want to compare an A, B, C, D list (and maybe more). Is th…
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by florisdejonge
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interleaving lists
I can't figure out how to do this. I'm not attaching anything because everything I have is completely wrong. The idea is somewhat simple: list A and list B output = A[1], B[1], A[2], B[2], A[3], B[3]…
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by john
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Squircle
Just for fun, I have added a new shape to my symbol node: Squircle. A squircle is like a rounded rectangle but without any straight edges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle Squircles are commonl…
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Key Table - The Inner Secrets of Nodebox
NOTE: The version of the key table demo attached to this note causes an error when you try to open it. I have attached a corrected version below. Thanks to Gottfried for finding this. Attached is ano…
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by john
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Adding to Examples
Just an FYI... Nodebox has a feature under the file menu called Examples. This allows you to open a dialog, navigate to one of dozens of different Nodebox demos, and open any one of them. You can the…
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Stack 2D
Stack2D is a dirt simple node I should have made YEARS ago. I think I will be using it constantly from now on. In Nodebox you are frequently making things and coloring them and resampling them and fu…
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Pixelate
Today's new node: pixelate! Pixelate turns a vector path or shape into an array of square pixels. It takes the following parameters: - Path. The path or closed shape to be pixelated. - Margin. The un…
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Cardioid
A simple circle that draws lines into a shape of a cardioid. I hope for this to provide a better understanding for the cardioid. something that shows up in mathematics everywhere.
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by john