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Align_labels and Align_numbers
TWO new nodes, designed to work together: alignlabels and alignnumbers. Arranging labels and numbers in neat columns is a bit of pain in Nodebox - if you're fussy. The stack node is great for quick a…
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Sign Node
Attached is a very simple but occasionally useful node: sign. Sign returns the sign of a number: -1 if the number is negative, +1 if the number is positive, or 0 if the number is 0 (or -0). This come…
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Image Node !
The ability to incorporate images into the pure vector world of NodeBox is probably the most often requested feature. My image node does not provide a true image object, but does the next best thing.…
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by john
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Inter_color and Morph_color Nodes
Attached is a demo showing TWO new nodes: intercolor and morphcolor. Intercolor returns intermediate shades between two colors based on a T value between 0 and 100. It is useful both for gradients an…
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by john
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Overlaps Node
Attached is a demo of a new node: overlaps Overlaps returns all possible intersections of up to ten overlapping shapes. One obvious application is Venn diagrams. The attached demo shows a five-way Ve…
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by Jussi
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End Point is then Start Point and so on.
EDIT: Just found the "CURVES!" post. I think this will get me unstuck. But if there is another way to go about the method below feel free to let me know! So I will leave the original here. Essentiall…
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by john
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Isometric Drawing Paper
Hot off the press: a system for making isometric drawings! The core system consists of three nodes: - isopaper draws a sheet of "paper" with an isometric grid. You can set: - Width - the width of the…
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Not getting installed from Rhino 7
Nodebox is not loading from package manager from Rhino 7 Other add-ins are loading up As per the discussion with Rhino support team installed Rhino latest release and tried Still nodebox add-in is no…
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Good_Center Node
Attached is a demo of a new node: Goodcenter. Goodcenter finds a reasonable center point guaranteed to be inside a shape (unlike centroid, which can fall outside a shape). The attached screenshot sho…
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World Map and Place_label Node
Attached is a demo of a new node, placelabel, which automatically sizes and places names into arbitrary shapes - in this case 176 different oddly-shaped countries. It can also serve as an example of…
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Posts not showing up?
How long does this generally take?
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by indefiniteness
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End Point is then Start Point and so on.
So I've read most of what I thought would be the related documentation on the site and pretty thoroughly scanned over majority of the rest especially the node references (which by the way, only shows…
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Replace Backdrop with Bound_box
I am doing a little cleanup work on my Cartan Node Library. Unless I hear a solid objection, I am going to deprecate one current node, backdrop, and replace it with a simpler node, boundbox. These ch…
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LFO?
Hi y'all! I'd like to make a sort of lfo to output an oscillating (various wave) value within a range. In particular I would like to make a line that "scan" the whole canvas. How can I do that? Thank…
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by john
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How to copy and paste nodes between files?
I know that after using John's fantastic library it's possible to copy and paste nodes from one scene into another, but I've got some nodes in one of my files that I'd like to utilise in another file…
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by Darren
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New to Nodebox, tons of questions ! :)
[English is not my first language] [I don't know if each question requires a thread] Hi, I'm Julien, designer, I discovered nodebox a few months ago after buying a plotter. I had followed tutorials t…
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by Pablo
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crazy paving
In the 1960s an American architecture professor, William Huff, coined the term ‘parquet deformation’ to mean a regular pattern of tiles that transforms as you go from left to right whilst maintaining…
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by john
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True Center Node
Attached is a new node: truecenter. It calculates the true center of regular polygons, stars, and fancy stars. The centroid node is used to determine the geometric center of a shape in Nodebox. It is…
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Fancy Star Node
Attached is a new node, fancystar. It makes it easy to create well-balanced stars with several coloring options. Of course Nodebox already has a star node which takes an inner and outer radius. This…
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Circle Circle
Another new node: circlecircle The circlecircle node finds the intersection points between two circles. - If the circles overlap, it will return two points - If the circles are tangent (touch in one…
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Distinct Points
Attached is a new node: distinctpts. Distinctpts works like the Nodebox distinct node for points. If you set its sensitivity to 0, it will remove all duplicate points in a list (based on positions ro…
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Cartan Library 3.1
Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library! Version 3.1 includes 107 nodes. All nodes are free for use with no restrictions. To use: with your current project open use File/Open Recent to o…
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by john
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Occlude Node
Attention Floris, Jussi, and other Nodebox plotters. Attached is a new node specially designed for plotters. NOTE: SEE BOTTOM OF THIS THREAD FOR AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THIS NODE Occlude takes a list…
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by john
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How to iterate on a list of strings?
Hello! Found out about nodebox recently. I'm loving it so far, but I'm having trouble with my first project and would like to ask for help: What I'm trying to do: Import a csv and based on the N entr…
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by john
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Occlusion
While working on my [landscape generator] (https://www.instagram.com/dejongefloris/) I was looking for a way to suggest depth. Since to plot such designs one would have to remove hidden lines when ce…
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by john
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how to import modules int custom python coded nodes
I'm writing a custom python coded node that would need to import pygame (https://github.com/pygame/pygame). This would enable me to output midi notes to a synth. Is this at all possible? Thanks for a…
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by xtensor
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Curves!
NOTE: This thread includes several updates. Use the updated versions of makecurve, fitcurve, and makecurve.py in the demo attached to my July 10 2019 comment, not the one attached to this comment. Un…
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by john
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3D Text Challenge
Yesterday Nodebox user and generative artist Jussi Jokinen posted an animation of 3D text on Instagram which he made in 2D using PaperJS. When I suggested it would be a fun project for Nodebox, he ch…
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by john
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NEW NODEBOX VERSION FOR WINDOWS USERS
Windows users rejoice! Frederik has fixed the annoying Meta shortcut key bug, described here among other places: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/19505499/menus-displaying-meta-and-keyboard-commands-not-w…
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by joe.s.clay
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Apply Color Node
Attached is the latest addition to my node library: applycolor. Applycolor simply takes a path or shape and recolors it using the properties of a reference object. Those properties are: - Fill Color…
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