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Polygon beauty
Hi John, Another Nodebox design, colored in VectorStyler using a gradient along a path. I also tried it in Nodebox, but the result doesn’t look as good and crisp possibly because, in Nodebox, color g…
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by john
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Inspired by String Art
Every now and then, I come across projects that are ideal for NodeBox. I think this is one of them. While browsing the web, I stumbled upon an art form that piqued my interest and curiosity, as it se…
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by lastvector
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Concat_list. UPDATE!
NOTE: the node in the demo attached to this note contains a small bug. See next post. Nodebox provides a way of turning one string into many (makestrings) but no way of doing the reverse: concatenati…
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by john
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Intersect Circle 3.8
Just a quick note to say that I updated an old node from my library. Intrsctcircle finds the intersection(s) of a line and an ellipse. The updated version works exactly the same, except: - It's faste…
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KPZ Growth
Crystallization, coffee stains, accumulating snow on branches, the boundary of a spreading forest fire, and the edge of a growing colony of bacteria all display a universal growth pattern. This patte…
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Write_Table v2
SEE UPDATE BELOW for new node and module names... Almost 10 years ago I created a node called writetable that, when rendered, would write a CSV file: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/16827547/write-table-…
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by indefiniteness
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NodeBox was helpful for Guilloche Pattern Project
Hi For a kind of guilloche pattern for which I wanted to transfer different line thicknesses from one vector object group to another, NodeBox was very helpful for me. Even though I don't have a parti…
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by indefiniteness
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Pixel_Waves Node
Last week a Nodebox user, Ari, asked how to make wavy line art. His example showed a photograph formed by sine waves that stretched out to render light pixels and scrunched up to render dark pixels.…
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by indefiniteness
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Graft Node
Graft as in plants, attaching a scion to a root. My new graft node attaches the subpath of a scion shape to the gap in a subpath of a root shape. I got the idea from looking at "French Curves", templ…
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Sanzo Colors v2
This is to announce an exciting upgrade to my very useful sanzocolors node. Sanzocolors is based on A Dictionary of Color Combinations published in the 1930s by Japanese artist Sanzo Wada. The origin…
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Mat_Invert Demo - Hampton Court Maze
Attached is a demo of my new matinvert node. It uses the new matrix data structure described here: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/10253218032/matrix-nodes This demo shows a diagram of the famous Hampton…
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Matrix Nodes
Attached are a DOZEN new nodes which all rely on a new Nodebox data type: matrix. A matrix is an ordinary Nodebox table with the following constraints: - The first column is named "row" and contains…
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Sag Node
Another new node for my library: sag. Sag draws a catenary curve between two support points. Catenary curves can represent a sagging rope and have other interesting properties. A ball rolling down a…
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Pixel_Waves Node (Official Release)
Here is the official release of my pixelwaves node. See my earlier post for the evoluition of the node. Pixelwaves takes seven parameters: - Pixels. A group of pixels made from a single resampled pat…
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by john
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Occurrences Node
The occurrences node counts the number of occurrences of each distinct item in a list. It returns a table containing, for each distinct item, its count and percentage. It is possible to do this calcu…
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Waveform v3.8
I have made some improvements to my waveform node. It now runs faster, can place waves along any baseline, fixes a subtle bug with sawtooth waves, and facilitates two forms of animation. Waveform now…
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Cartan Node Library 3.6
Cartan Node Library 3.6 Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library. This file was built using over 627,000 nodes and over 778,000 connections, surely making it the largest Nodebox network o…
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by john
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Cartan Node Library 3.7
Cartan Node Library 3.7 Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library. This file was built using over 915,000 nodes, about 1.125 MILLION connections, and over THREE MILLION lines of code in th…
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by john
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"10 Years of Reading"
Hi Nodebox community! I'm a graphic designer who occasionally works with information design/data visualization especially in my personal/self-initiated work. I wanted to share some work I did with No…
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by john
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Voronoi Node
A Voronoi Diagram partitions a plane with points into polygons such that each polygon contains exactly one generating point and every point in a given polygon is closer to its generating point than t…
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Fill Circles Node
FillCircles is the official version of the circle packing nodes developed with Floris using Claude AI. For more about that see: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/8672212182/ai-circle-packing Floris and I (…
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Hier_Map Node
NOTE: This node has been updated. I removed the original post and replaced it with this one.... The next in my series of hierarchy nodes... Hiermap turns a hierarchy into a rectangular map. It does t…
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Place_Text Node
Placetext is a companion to my new placenode. It is specifically designed to place blocks of text Into typographic grids. This is a whole new way of thinking about object placement in Nodebox. Placet…
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by john
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Improvement to Kern Node
I have made a small improvement to my kern node. In the 3.6 release of my library I altered kern so that it would work with my linebreak node. I also allowed you to control the leading (the space bet…
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by john
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Leading Added to Charpath and Wordpath
I have added a leading (line height) control to my charpath and wordpath nodes. Charpath and wordpath work just like textpath except that instead of returning a single path, they return multiple path…
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Solidify
Solidify is a node which converts a path into an arbitrarily thick fillable shape. It can convert a line into a rectangle, or a rectangle into a square donut. It will take open or closed paths, and c…
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Import_hier Node
My family of hierarchy nodes now make it possible to work with hierarchies inside Nodebox and turn them into charts and maps. But how do you get the actual data INTO the hierarchy? The importhier nod…
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Multi_Switch Node
A few months ago I introduced a new data type, multi-lists: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/8101858422/multi-lists Multi-lists are a way of combining multiple separate lists into a single list. The multi…
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UPDATED Hierarchy Charts AND Random Hierarchy Charts
Attached is the demo of a new node which also contains UPDATES to my recent hierarchy and hierchart nodes. FIRST, the updates. - Hierarchy Node. Now can go up to 24 levels deep (0 to 24). - HierChart…
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by john
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Hogue Genealogy
I just finished a project I've wanted to do for decades: the visualization of a vast family tree left to me (in text form) by a great aunt. The challenge was to draw the tree in a way that makes it e…
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by john