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NodeBox 3
Questions & answers about our node-based tools.
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draw a diagonal as rect
Hello, having a rects width and height value, I would like to draw a rect that has the length and angle of the diagonal of that rect. To do this in trigonometry I would need a arctan function. But th…
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by john
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Issue with the Exploring Nodes Pattern Tutorial
I have been doing the tutorials for nodebox, but when I try to do the pattern tutorial, the snowflake that I have created is not tessellating properly. It is crowding on each other instead of having…
8 replies
by john
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NodeBox 3.0.49
Turns out we didn't really have the right-click bug under control. I went through the code with a fine tooth comb and found a weird edge case where you could trigger the error when dragging nodes whi…
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Text inside a shape (character)
Hi, i'm new to Nodebox and i was wondering if it's easy to make a long string of text fit inside a shape (rectangle) or a character shape (an "R" for example)… Thanks!
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by john
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color number of objects in grid.
Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to color a certain number of objects placed in a grid. E.g. If I create a grid of 100 rectangles (10x10 grid) can I make it so 63 of them are one color and the r…
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by lucasnijs
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Circle View with Direct Connectors (App to App) Part 2
Dear John, hoped you have an excellent trip last weekend. I tried several times to load Question 2 up to the existing discussion (part1). But it seems to ignore my uploads. So I opened the other issu…
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by andy.treichler
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Circle View with Direct Connectors (App to App) Part 2
Dear John, hoped you have an excellent trip last weekend. I tried several times to load Question 2 up to the existing discussion (part1). But it seems to ignore my uploads. So I opened the other issu…
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by andy.treichler
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Adding Socket Connection functionality to control editor
Hi all, FYI I'm currently adding socket connectivity to the app to control basic stuff like file ops, reload graph, playback etc. Nodebox will act like a server that other apps (like After Effects :)…
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by john
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Circle View with Direct Connectors (App to App)
For a small project, I created a circle view which allows me to work with two CSV file (Master App File: All details of an application and an app relations: connectors). It allows you to create direc…
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by andy.treichler
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Animating a line
I have a quad line that I want to animate. Specifically the arc represents a flight path, and I want to animate that path, much like you would expect from a flight path, i.e. the curve is revealed as…
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by andy.treichler
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Need help to approach this style of art
Here is what I am trying to accomplish, http://simplify.thatsh.it/ It basically takes an image and simplifies it into very basic elements, Kadinskly style, well his lesser complex works anyway, that…
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Date Format Custom Node
UPDATE: SEE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT... Frederik, On April 3, 2014 you made the following entry in a (now closed) discussion: For the date conversion I've written another node that will make it into Nod…
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by john
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NodeBox Version 3.0.46
Hi, I've just released a new version of NodeBox for Mac and Windows that should fix the annoying right-click bug. You can download it and read the release notes. Please let me know if you have issues…
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by rioch
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Error message 'The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect'
I am new to nodebox so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I am going through the following step by step to try and create an ellipse shaped data visualisation similar to the 'earthqua…
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by john
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Geocoding "null" error
Hey I am using the geocoding sample and modifying it to show more that one location from an imported csv, every other node above "make point" seems to work but "make point" gives me a "null" error. N…
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by john
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I have created a monster
I just finished a really beautiful visualization using NodeBox that I will soon be sharing. But I have a problem… This visualization has a large number of text paths - 904 paths with over 3.3 million…
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by john
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Capture animation in OSC setup
Ok, so I have started sending OSC from Bidule to Nodebox. It works as it should - apart from the fact, that NodeBox apparently isn't built for real time animation. It's a problem, because how can I t…
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by AB
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I can not post a comment on my own discussion.
A few days I can not add a comment for discussion (how swap columns and rows). After publication, the new comment simply disappears. Maybe I do not understand something.
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by rioch
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how swap columns and rows
Sometimes I need to swap the rows and columns in a table. In order to render the data visualization "on the other side" ) Tell me how to do this in Nodebox?
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by john
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Issue / Feature request
Is there a way to get Nodebox to export pdf files with the textpaths remaining as editable, non-outlined text? This would be a very useful feature to have when doing production design work in infogra…
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by Frederik
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Odd Feature Request: Export CSV
This might seem an odd request to the inventors of NodeBox. But I wish that in addition to exporting SVG, PNG, and PDF, that I could also have the option to export CSV. Choosing this would simply exp…
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by john
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Help! How can I neutralize a BigDecimal?
Here is a bug that was hard to find: I was doing a json query of address locations using Google's Maps Geocoding API. I fed it a list of 400 city names and it failed on city 335. The latitude and lon…
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by john
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How can I strip carriage returns from a string?
Is there any way within NodeBox to strip carriage returns and line feeds out of a sting? I tried feeding \r and \n into a replace node but that didn't work. I suppose I could make a custom node to do…
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by john
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Problem with some field values not found in query.json
Frederik or whoever can help, I am using the queryjson node to read a JSON file with a number of fields: - time - id - name - type - message When I read them all at once using a query like "$.data" I…
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by Stefan
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Scrolling Speed Under Mac Sierra
I upgraded to Mac Sierra (OS 10.12) last night, and also updated my Java to 1.8.091-b14. So far NodeBox seems to be working just fine, except for one subtle problem... I use a MacBook Air at home and…
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by Frederik
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NodeBox Grid library - Node
Hey guys! Is this library available as a NODE in NodeBox 3? I can only "program" visually... https://www.nodebox.net/code/index.php/Gridcreate If not.. - Is it possible to create a Node from it? Has…
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by Frederik
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Outputing data to txt
hello, i am trying to make my first visualisation/animation :)) i have xml with data and everything is working nice, (only takes some time to figure out) and i am no programmer and i lack some animat…
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by john
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Shuffle layout of a Poster
Hey guys, Is it possible to make a program that "shuffles" between different layout possibilities of text/images blocks on a poster? The text/images themselves would be fixed, only positions would ch…
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by alexandre
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SVG import, with individual layers
Is it possible to import an SVG, and have layers in separate parts (not grouped)? So for ex, I could rotate a specific layer of the SVG, not the whole thing?
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by alexandre
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List Position
Is there any way to give items of a list a behaviour, that is dependent on the items position in a list in nodeBox3 ? What I would like to do is to move shapes in dependence of their list position to…
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by john