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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
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Fast Gradient
I love my gradient nodes, but they are a tad slow if you have a bunch of them. And for a simple one-color gradient, they are overkill. For that common use case you don't need the full power of my pal…
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Color Theory: Another Color Space - OKLCH
I just came across this well-written link for our color theory reference library: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rgb-hsl OKLCH is kinda like OKLAB but with polar chroma/hue…
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Multi-Lists
In Nodebox you can group paths and geometries, but nothing else. You can't group points or strings or numbers or colors. Any subnetwork you make will output a single list of items, even if those item…
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Identify Node
Sometimes, in a subnetwork, when you input an object through a null node, you need to know what kind of an object it is. Is it a path or a geometry? Or is it a data table? Identify takes a single obj…
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Dilute Node
The dilute node dilutes a color. "Dilute" could mean a number of different things: - Reduce the opacity to a defined value. - Reduce the opacity even more than it already is (e.g. cut it in half, so…
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The Natural System of Colours - An Experiment
Fellow Nodeboxer Nick Rougeux has just created another wonderful color-related project, "The Natural System of Colours": https://www.c82.net/natural-colors/ And, as is his custom, he has also release…
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by rougeux
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Public Domain Playing Cards
From time to time I think about creating playing cards in Nodebox. It would be fairly easy to do, EXCEPT for the face cards, which are rather complex. There should be a way not to reinvent this wheel…
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by Dan
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Wordpath
Having recently made a charpath node, and seeing how useful that was, it occurred to me that a wordpath node might be even better! So here it is: wordpath. Like charpath, wordpath is dirt simple. Its…
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Animation - i call this interference-1
Hi Another play with Nodebox this Time i had the idea of animate it here the link to video https://go.screenpal.com/watch/cZjrjzV9Hii the Nodebox File is attached
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by lastvector
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Halton Scatter Node
Haltonscat scatters points inside a shape in a deterministic but random-looking way using the Halton Sequence. More about the Halton Sequence here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltonsequence Halton…
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urgent help needed for a knitting project
hello hello, good people of nodebox! i'm a design student and i love this community. jpeg in the attach file will be enough for explaining my situation. my current skill set is not enough to generate…
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by john
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Redo Contour Node
Last year I introduced a new node, paircontour, that allowed you to join two contours into a single path with no external code module required: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/5267048442/pair-contour-nod…
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Reorder Node
The Cartan Node Library is having a growth spurt. Here is yet another new node... Reorder takes a list of up to 7 items and reorders it. The items can be anything: strings, numbers paths, points, col…
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Werner Color Node
I've been having so much fun with my Sanzocolors node that I decided we could all benefit from another historical color palette node. For this I turned to a project by longtime Nodebox user and data…
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by john
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cannot create PyString with non-byte value
Hello, I am learning nodebox on a university course. The phrase 'cannot create PyString with non-byte value' keeps popping up. I don't know where it went wrong. I tried reinstalling the program, but…
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by Frederik
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Branches
UPDATE - see below for a bug fix and an add-on node! The branches node, which I think is pretty cool, was a direct result of a request from a Nodebox user named Colt: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/7321…
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by lastvector
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The Unreasonable Power of Wiggling Just a Little
Nodebox is a pure vector program. But, sooner or later, in order to be visible on a computer screen, those vectors will be rendered into pixels. And sometimes, for certain rare and perverse curves, s…
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by john
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Charpath
I woke up this morning with an idea for how to do a node I've been wanting for YEARS. Charpath works exactly like textpath with one difference: instead of returning a single path, it returns a list o…
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by john
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Creating a new line character
Hey, I am using Nodebox for a while now and while the documentation is sparse this forum has been a valuable source for a deeper understanding and tipps and tricks. I think I can contribute on trick…
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by john
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Line Breaks added to Charpath, Kern, and Text_svg
Thanks to a cool hack discovered by Tolifox, I have added the linebreak node to my library. Details here: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/7461021272/creating-a-new-line-character I then realized that I w…
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Sort Colors
A simple yet handy node: sortcolors. Sortcolors takes a list of colors and sorts them in one of four different ways: luma, hue, saturation, and brightness. It takes three parameters: - Colors. A list…
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New to Nodebox! Advice creating these shapes?
Hello! Hopefully this is the right place for this sort of post. I'm brand new to procedural art, being mostly an Illustrator guy for the last decade. I'm really attracted to Nodebox for its advanced…
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by john
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Sub_Path and Find_T
Attached are the first additions to what will be v3.6 of my node library: an update to subpath and a new node - findT. Subpath returns a portion of a complex path between two percentages: Start and E…
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Cartan Node Library 3.5
Cartan Node Library 3.5 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library. This file was built using over 433,000 nodes and over 583,000 connections, surely making it the largest N…
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by john
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42 Node Clock
Genuary is an annual event for generative artists. For each day in January you are a given a short prompt to create a piece of code-based art. More here: https://genuary.art The prompt for January 3,…
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Add_Unicode!
One more addition before I publish v3.5 of my library... unicode! The unicode node is very simple. Just enter one or more 4-digit unicode hex codes (separated by spaces) and it will spit out unicode…
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ALL NEW: Inter_Color and Morph_Color
I have completely revised two nodes: intercolor and morphcolor. Intercolor returns an intermediate shade between two colors. The current version is dirt simple. It simply takes the linear Interpolati…
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by john
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Exponential and Settle Nodes
TWO new nodes, both primarily for creating motions. Exponential changes values over time at an exponential rate. You can feed in a range node and create an exponential curve, or use the values to dri…
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Crossings Node
My new crossings node finds points where linear paths join or cross. It's actually pretty simple and easy to use, but there are some subtleties that require explanation. By "linear paths" I mean path…
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by lastvector