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Paper size node for penplotters
I made a node to simulate the paper size and the width of the pens or markers and to correctly position and scale the artwork before plotting. This could also be useful for printing artwork. It was e…
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by florisdejonge
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Divide Safely
Attached is a simple but handy new node: dividesafe. Dividesafe allows you to perform divisions without having to check for division by zero errors. Just feed in a numerator and denominator. If the d…
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by florisdejonge
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Triangle Formulas
My triangle node is a hidden gem of the Cartan Node Library. It's deceptively simple. Just provide three values (2 angles and a side, an angle and 2 sides, or 3 sides) and my node will calculate the…
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Improved Draw_Table
Attached is an improved version of my drawtable node. Drawtable converts a data table to a graphical object that you can include in your output. It produces a table that looks somewhat like the data…
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Combinatoric Toolkit
NOTE: also see an addition combinatorial node, intpart, introduced later in this thread. Attached are some nodes (described below) that may be useful for anyone doing projects involving combinatorics…
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by abdu
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Probability Puzzle
Just for fun I used NodeBox to answer the following puzzle, posed on Quora: There is a game where you draw 7 numbers. In total there are 36 numbers, which are six ones, six twos, six threes, till six…
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Heart Node - And Heart Challenge!
Attached is a very simple node that does a very simple thing: it draws a heart. The classic heart shape is widely known and has many uses, but unlike rectangles, lines, and ellipses, does not have it…
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by indefiniteness
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What is this math phenomena?
Hello, apologies for the absence my dad had a stroke... as for the rest of it, I'll spare you the details John. However, here is something that has me intrigued - I know there must be some name for t…
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by indefiniteness
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Yin Yang Challenge
YouTube has a nice tutorial that shows how to make a yin yang symbol using only ten nodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9gI9s9fnU The result, shown in the attached screenshot, is a great way for…
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by indefiniteness
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importing cvs file quesiton
Hello everyone, In new to nodeBox, and with the hope that I can get some visualization to complement the data, I'm getting from my Phd research. I'm probably going to be asking quite a few things, fo…
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by john
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Cartan Node Library 3.3
Cartan Node Library 3.3 Attached, AT LAST, is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library! Version 3.3 includes 147 nodes. All nodes are free for use with no restrictions. To use: with your current proj…
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by gabriel
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Luma and Contrast Nodes
The attached interactive demo introduces TWO new color nodes: Luma and Contrast. Luma converts a color to a luma value between 0 and 1 (0 is very dark, 1 is very bright). Luma is a measure of the act…
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by john
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Luma Colors Node
Another addition to the color theory wing of the Cartan Node Library: Lumacolors. Lumacolors is a new way of generating random colors. In contrast to my Colors node, which generates colors between a…
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Orderings Node
Today's new node is a node I thought I had made last summer: orderings. Orderings returns a list of all the possible ways you could arrange n items. Each ordering is a comma-separated list of item in…
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by john
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Mix Node
Continuing the cavalcade of new nodes... The mix node! Mix is an alternative to the heavily used combine node. Combine takes up to 7 lists and spits out all of list 1, then all of list 2, etc. Mix, i…
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Object Classes For Custom Python Functions
Hello, Where can I get detailed information on how to properly form return types when using customer python nodes. For example, the following function doesn't recognize the Color() object constructor…
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by john
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Adjust Fill Node
Suppose you have created a complex composition, say a bouquet of balloons with little stars on them, and you want to just tweak the colors a bit. Maybe heighten the saturation or decrease the alpha a…
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from looping to lists
I am trying to rewrite everything I did in Postscript in Nodebox. A lot of basic geometry construction in Postscript is really hard for me in Nodebox. This piece was called grassrand in Postscript. I…
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by john
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Products Node
If you ever need the sum of a list of numbers, you have the sum node. And if you need a running total of a list of numbers, there is the runningtotal node (or my runningstart node). But what if you n…
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import_svgl: rangel integer end argument expected, got float.
I was following the Course of https://www.nodebox.net/blog/2013/01/29/kaleidoscope-tutorial.html, but I don't know how to deal with this error? I'm using a Mac computer. Traceback (most recent call l…
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by john
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HCL Color Node
In addition to adding the CLH / HCL color space to my update of the palette node, I am also releasing it as a separate node. The HCLColor node works very much like the RGBColor and HSBColor nodes: Th…
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Hilbert Node
FILL SHAPES WITH COOL FRACTAL PATTERNS! ARRANGE OBJECTS IN A NEW WAY! Attached is a demo of a new node: hilbert. The hilbert node creates a meandering path that fills an arbitrary rectangular area, a…
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by john
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Update to Colors Node
NOTE: The version attached to this post had a bug in it that limited how random the colors were. SEE MY REPLY FOR THE CORRECTED UPDATE! Short version: The Colors node has a new Random mode that can p…
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by john
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Color Brewer Node
Attached is yet another new color node. Colorbrewer allows you to choose a color palette based on the widely used ColorBrewer system. The Color Brewer system was developed by Dr. Cynthia Brewer at th…
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Color palette based on weather temperatures
Hello. I'm very new to this (only 48 hours playing with Nodebox). I'm trying to create some Christmas garlands based on three Spanish locations' monthly maximum and minimum temperatures. (Previous cr…
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by john
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Need some help (clock/circular graph)
Hi, I am relativly new to Nodebox (but have some programming experience and specialized in visualizing location-data/gis). I am looking for an option to show hourly data on a clock: the clock should…
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by john
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Change Color Node
What if you have a list of different colors and you want to change just one color property of all those colors at once? Maybe you want to see what would happen if you lowered the saturation or increa…
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Inscribe Node
The attached inscribe node inscribes one shape into the center of another. By "inscribe" I mean that the shape is placed at the center of the container shape and then scaled up until some part of it…
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Problems with fonts in Windows
I have two problems dealing with fonts in NodeBox 3 on Windows. 1. Some TTF fonts installed on my computer do not appear in the program. Is there any other specification I need to know besides the fo…
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by john
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Basic string replacement issue
I'm trying to make a simple chart that shows my finances, and when I look at the CSV I have from the bank I noticed that a lot of the descriptions are different for effectively the same thing. As an…
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by john