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NodeBox 3
Questions & answers about our node-based tools.
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Connecting points to produce curve ?
...Bezier or other representations; is this a possibility? Btw, as it's my first post, I want share my thanks and thoughts: Nodebox 3 is wonderful - thank you for your thoughtful work! Once I grasped…
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by kpv.mango
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NodeBox Works Fine with El Capitan
Just passing this along in case anyone else is wondering about whether it's safe to upgrade... I finally installed OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) on my Mac tonight. I was a little worried that NodeBox mig…
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Cannot figure out how to display 5 different piecharts
Dear Nodebox, I'm trying to split a CSV file with 5 days and per day 3 categories to create 5 separate pietarts (so one per day) - have tried everything but cannot seem to make it work.... Hope you g…
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by john
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can't open nodebox its send me a java error
i try to open first time nodebox but its send some kind a java error i look to java even reinstall the nodebox and java but still i hava thesame problem
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by Frederik
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can not install on Mac Yosemite 10.10
hello, While installing I got this error and can not continue intalling. I need help. Thank you java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum const class nodebox.node.Port$Widget.POİNT at java.lang.Enu…
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by Pomoe
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new user - nodebox wont start
Hi, I just downloaded 3.0.39 and I am running OSX 10.9.3, with Java 7 Update 60. I couldn't get it to run so I read the forums and then installed the Java for OSX update 2014-001 http://support.apple…
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by Frederik
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nodebox won't start
nodebox won't start, i re-installed JDK, ran it on terminal with sudo. still nothing. here's the output: A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007ff…
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by Frederik
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Hebrew letters
Hi, I have some Hebrew characters in my csv list I want to visualize. It didn't work so far... Can anybody help? Cheers, Magen
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by Magen
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How to put a max number to the frame node?
I am very new to Nodebox, but I feel like I am getting the hang of things -- but I am having trouble creating animations that allow for a variety of sequences/scenes over the course of the animation.…
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by lucasnijs
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Recursive Pentagons
edv closed his/her discussion on Recursion, but it was too interesting of a challenge to pass up. Attached is a simple network that creates the top example in the golden ratio chart edv supplied. It…
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by john
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Audio analysis
Hi everyone! I created generative art based on an audio song that is playing through the device as audioplayer1. I am able to record the animation but the video is exported as empty white screen. How…
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by shanejez
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No module named random
Mac os X Yosemite Hi there, I try to connect a Textpath node to a scatter node like in this video : https://vimeo.com/54523012 But, each time I activate the scatter node i've got this message : "No m…
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by Frederik
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ad rondom selction of paths
Hello, I would like to import an illustrator drawing consisted out of 1213 paths into nodebox. It would be great if nodebox could make a ad random selection of paths. So far I imported the illustrato…
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by stievens
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Failure to Understand sub-networks
I am fundamentally not understanding the process of grouping into sub networks. I understand the implicit looping and so on, but I just cannot make my sub networks behave as I want them to. For examp…
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by john
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Retrieve SVG attributes
Is there a way to get attributes from imported SVG, such as the 'id' in this snippet from the source code from an SVG map? I've tried poking around with the Lookup node but haven't found something li…
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by Frederik
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strokeWidth and strokeColor bug
Doing a lookup on strokeWidth works fine UNLESS strokeWidth is zero; in that case the lookup returns a 1. Also, strokeColor is undefined when strokeWidth is zero, so looking it up causes problems if…
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by john
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how to set random rotation to polygons on a grid
Hey guys. I'm trying to do something really simple, creating a grid connected to a polygon and putting a random rotation to each of this polygons. The problem is that the polygons are not rotating ar…
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by shuantsu
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grid with random svg
Hi, I would populate a grid with random SVG's but may be I'm approaching the problem from the wrong perspective (see attachment). So what is the right model to accomplish it? thank you in advance, ma…
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by matteo
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Freehand in presentation mode
Hi there, I am encountering a problem in NodeBox 3. I have made a drawing tool that uses a freehand node as data input. I am recording my screen while drawing and I'd like to avoid seeing the freehan…
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by Francesco
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OS X NodeBox 3.0.43 crashes on startup
When I start NodeBox 3.0.43 on OS X 10.10.2, the Starting NodeBox window appears with a progress bar, then a second later it crashes. The crash report is attached. I have Apple's java as well as 1.8.…
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by Frederik
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NodeBox 3 with high resolution screen on Windows
I am trying to use NodeBox 3.0.43 on Windows 8.1 with a high resolution ("UHD") screen. While the menus have a normal size, everything else is unusably tiny. Is there a way to make NodeBox 3 usable o…
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by Frederik
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Exporting Certain Area & Saving Sub-Networks
Is there a way to set a specific part of the canvas to export? Is there a way to save sub-networks to the menu that pops up when double clicked? Or any other way? Thanks
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by Rory
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Recursion
Hello all, I'm trying to create illustrations similar to the attached image (recursive patterns based off phi/golden mean). However I can't find a way to achieve this simply. Is there no recussion su…
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Multi-Threading.
Do you have any plans to support Multi-Threading? I have some not so complicated networks that are running and using %100.00 usage on a macbook pro 2012 and it is just insanely slow. I searched the f…
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NodeBox Import error unable to find module random (line 2 of pyvector.py)
Hi everybody, on a clean download of NodeBox, every time I add a new polygon to my network, NodeBox application returns an error: unable to import random for the file pyvector.py at line 2 : from ran…
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Drag Interactions?
NodeBox is paradoxical. The design-time UI has rich interactivity; you can zoom and pan in both the view and network panes to your heart's content. But it is difficult to interact in the same way wit…
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by Frederik
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The Format Number Template
One of the biggest hurdles I've encountered in learning Nodebox is the paucity of documentation. The node reference offers little more than a bare list of ports. Thank goodness for the tutorials and…
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by Frederik
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snap node
hæ— is it possible to modify the snap node or access the grid it uses, to change it ?
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by Frederik
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fit rect to bound of imported svg
hæ— I feel like I'm having a bit of a brain fart over this. I'm trying to make a rect fit to the bounds of an imported sag, how would I accomplish this ?
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by Frederik
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node functionality
hæ— I was wondering if there were plans for usability for nodes such as muting/disabling a node and being able to connect a node between other existing connections without manually reconnecting— unle…
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by Frederik