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Complement Node
UPDATE! See improved version with "Keep Original" checkbox posted farther down in this thread. Another new color node: complement! The complement node creates complementary colors based on a supplied…
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by john
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Removing paths to make ready for plotter
Hi. First of all... thank you for an awesome tool. Coding is not my strong suit, so this visual node based tool is amazing, however I am still challenged by it. How would I go about removing all geom…
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by lastvector
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Dashed Lines
NOTE - This initial version has a bug. Download v2 (below) instead. Attached is a node I've been meaning to make for years: dashedline. Dashedline takes any path or group of paths and replaces solid…
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by john
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NodeBox Live
I've tried NodeBox Live and it looks really promising and like a future tool of NodeBox. Now I am wondering what is the current state of NB Live, is it ready to use for some dataviz experiments in th…
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by lastvector
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"gradient" fill
i am trying to colorize circles in a grid with gradient based on three rgb colors - with those i have created a range of values. but so far i have only managed to colorize a grid with a consistent nu…
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by tom
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Welcome to the NodeBox Live Category
We've been getting some questions about NodeBox Live lately, so I thought I would add a new category to keep them in. NodeBox Live is the web-based javascript version of NodeBox. You can find it here…
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by lastvector
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Tutorials?
Any Tutorial recommendations to begin with Nodebox? Thank you!
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by Mario
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SVG File processing Problem
Hi John I'm stuck with a nodebox tree that I created. A while ago I found a little circle packing program. It lets you convert a bitmap into a vector graphic based on a circle packing algorithm and s…
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by lastvector
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Draw NDBX
NOTE: Version 2 now available for download - see below. Draw NDBX is a Nodebox network that can draw other Nodebox networks. It can even draw itself (see screenshot)! To use it, simply point to any .…
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by john
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Pattern made with the help of Nodebox
I enjoy creating patterns. Here is another one of my attempts with Nodebox. The basic pattern was made in Nodebox. It is a great way to try out different variations and I really enjoy experimenting.…
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by lastvector
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waveform
Dear Nodebox Community, I am writing to seek guidance on a specific aspect of my Nodebox.live project. The project allows users to upload an image and manipulate it through various parameters to gene…
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by florisdejonge
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Signed Distance Node
Attached is a node, signeddist, that computes the minimum signed distance from points to a shape boundary. Distances outside the shape are postiive; distances inside are negative. Thanks to Jussi Jok…
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by florisdejonge
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Pattern exploration - a unsual way
A while ago I came across this beautiful video from yukikawae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2L07KwL-c I found this so interesting that I thought about how to recreate the first Pattern in Nodebox…
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by lastvector
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Improved Factorial and Concat_list Alternative
I did some RIDICULOUS coding tonight in order to get around some OBSCURE NodeBox limitations - all to make a MINOR improvement to a single, seldom-used node. WARNING - the following commentary is ner…
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by john
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Color Theory: Floris Plotter Blending
Just a quick note. Over at Instagram, Floris posted a recent plot that caught my eye: a Rorschach of red blobs and blue blobs (filled with Hilbert Curves) that overlapped in various places forming pu…
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by john
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Functions via Python scripts vs Nodbox only Tools
Hi John You have already mentioned in various posts that you like to create functions with Nodebox only on-board tools. The question arose in my mind: why are you trying to do some things explicitly…
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by lastvector
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Refine your Nodebox Design (1) - with Flamepainter
Nodebox can export designs as SVG or PDF vector graphics, which allows for very flexible further processing. I present a few options here in a short series and show what can already be achieved with…
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by lastvector
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Node copy and past problem windows 10
Hi New nodebox lover here I'm using Nodebox 3.0.53 on Windows 10 and ran into a very annoying problem that I can't copy a node/node tree from one project to another project. I read somewhere in the f…
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by john
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Signed distance field
I did a generative art piece based on signed distance fields using javascript but thought that naturally it'd be doable in Nodebox as well. As a POC for myself I did simple SDF circle drawing network…
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by john
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Faster Explosions
While working on a recent project (signed direction) I made a breakthrough: a faster, cleaner way of exploding paths. I explode paths (break them into individual curves and line segments) all the tim…
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Attraction and Angle_Field Nodes
As part of my recent engagement with Jussi, I am deprecating my old attractor node and replacing it with two NEW nodes: - attraction - anglefield My attractor was included way back in the first relea…
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Argument type mismatch
Hi! I installed nodebox, launched it, created a couple of nodes, but when I tried to continue working, I got various errors. For example, this: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type misma…
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by john
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Palette Node
NOTE: SEE BELOW FOR AN UPDATED VERSION Attached is another new color node: palette. Palette makes it easier to deal with palettes imported from other tools. You can also use it to expand and tune an…
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by john
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Color Theory: Wheels and Complements
Yet another dive into yet another corner of color theory... Today I decided to make a node I've considered for a long time: complement. Give it a starting color and it would return color(s) complemen…
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by john
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Color Theory: RYB
Thanks to a nudge from Floris, I have spent the last few days diving into RYB (Red Yellow Blue) color theory. Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYBcolormodel RYB Color Compositing: htt…
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New Blend_Color Node
UPDATE: SEE 3.4 VERSION BELOW Attached is a completely revised version of my old blendcolor node. The original version was very simple. It took an opaque background, a translucent foreground, and ret…
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by florisdejonge
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Color Theory: Perceptually Uniform Gradients
I came across a nice tutorial on design which included an interesting section on color theory, and perceptually uniform color spaces: https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/perceptually-uniform-c…
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Color Theory References
Lately I've been doing a deep dive into color theory. It's a vast space with wisdom accumulated over centuries, whole libraries full of books, and armies of experts inventing (sometimes conflicting)…
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by john
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CymaNodes
Need your help with this one. Don't know what I am doing. Trying to make a cymatics plate but on a hexagonal plate not a square one. Currently, I really don't know how to use the random nodes. But id…
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by john
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Conditionals in NodeBox
Nodebox artist GabrielSimi posed the following question on his Instagram account: Nitty Gritty Conditional Programming. Paint with red or black if a number (sine function of frame number) is above or…
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by john