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Show your Work
A place to share projects and source code.
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my work
my work in the program nodebox. who wants to know how I did it, write.
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by Rogulin
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Amateur Mathematics
Today I happened across a fascinating article about a breakthrough in graph theory in Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-2018041…
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Animation: Fracture!
Another harmless doodle. Enjoy! John
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Windchime
On a recent trip to Tlaquepaque, Mexico, I came across a shop selling windchimes consisting of a central metal plate surrounded by a dozen or so increasingly large metal frames. As the whole assembly…
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Visual Tasks
This demo creates animations for six basic visual tasks which are easy for people to do, but hard for computers. For each one I created a NodeBox solution. If you find the need to perform similar fea…
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Temperature anomalies, i.e. deviations from the corresponding 1951-1980 means.
My own version of plotting global surface temperature changes based on NASA GISS data - Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ I have used Nodebox 3. Not really a…
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by john
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Little Houses (Animation)
Attached is another midnight doodle. Necker Cubes can cause your visual system to flip back and forth between two possible interpretations; depending on where you look the cubes seem to pop inward or…
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Metatron's Cube
A friend of mine asked me about a figure from sacred geometry called Metatron's Cube - so I decided to make one using NodeBox. Metatron's cube consists of 13 circles linked together in a certain way.…
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by john
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Accordion
Attached is a demo of accordion, a subnet that allows you to spread and tilt points on a path. The demo contains four varied animations. Accordion works like resample, but gives you more control abou…
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by john
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NodeBox Analyzer
Attached is a NodeBox network that reads in one or more NodeBox ndbx files and produces summaries of its contents. If you render the "parse" subnet (screenshot 1) it creates a table with one row for…
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by Frederik
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Directory Nodes
The attached zip file contains a folder and demo file with two custom nodes: listfiles and listfolders. Both nodes require a folder path (starting from your desktop). listfiles will return a list of…
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long-listed poster for information is beautiful awards
my daughters poster got longlisted for information is beautiful awards she used nodeBox for the layout and whole structure and written about it in a medium article sharing on her behalf :) (did try a…
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by sundar
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Singularity (Animation)
Just noodling around, having fun with my makeCurve node. Enjoy!
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by sundar
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Choropleth Maps
As an experiment in open source mapping, I created a number of choropleths (maps which use data to color or pattern areas) of my home island of Alameda. For one map I plotted self-identified race in…
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by Frederik
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Importing supershape in nodebox3
Hi, I've downloaded the supershape library that is supposed to have been ported for Nodebox 3, but I can't seem to figure out how I exactly add it to my Nodebox 3-installation. Does anybody have any…
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by Frederik
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Infinite Zoom
For this animation I placed a tiny version of my svg (at .5%) inside a full scale version inside a gigantic version (10,000%) - which is as far as NodeBox zooming allows. I lined everything up so tha…
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by Frederik
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Make Table
This is a general purpose version of a subnetwork I posted earlier. This version allows you to easily make a table of up to six columns. Just enter the header names as a comma-separated list then hoo…
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by john
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Import TXT
Attached is a demo network with a custom node, importtxt. Importtxt works just like importcsv: point it at a txt file and it will return a list of each line (string) in that file. To use it, like all…
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by Frederik
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Collapsing Star
Another animation of no apparent redeeming value. This grew out of a quick demo I made while helping a fellow NodeBox user. Just to see what would happen I added a frame node to animate it and then s…
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Information is Beautiful entry
This is my entry for this year's Kantar Information is Beautiful awards. Not exactly what I hoped for but like so many projects time got the better of me. I was already using Nodebox to produce simpl…
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by Frederik
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The Isle of Alameda
I live on an island in San Francisco Bay called Alameda. Just for fun I decided to make my own map of the island using NodeBox. I used open source data from OpenStreetMap.org. I had to crop the islan…
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by john
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Shutter
I was curious how a camera's diaphragm shutter works, so decided to make one in NodeBox. NodeBox is great for projects like this because it allows you to feel your way through a problem, trying diffe…
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My Architecture Work from 2008-2016
I created over the last few weeks my own view over my ICT Architecture project work in a big company. Thanks to Nodebox 3 I was able to do things I could not do with MS Visio or Tableau. I love it.Th…
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by john
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Curvy Characters
Here is another fun way to do unspeakable things to innocent fonts. The curvychar subnetwork takes a text string (one character at a time) and adjusts its "curviness". It's great fun to try different…
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by john
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path_string node
Attached is a custom node: pathstring. It converts a path to SVG notation. I have also provided a subnetwork, pathtable, that converts that path string into a table of points with attributes (contour…
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by Frederik
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Replace Insides
Here is a simple network which takes strings, converts them to text paths, then replaces the insides of letters (and the dots atop lowercase I and j) with a different shape of your choice. The attach…
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by Frederik
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write_table Node
The attached demo contains a custom node, writetable, that turns any zip map into a csv file. To use it, just attach any node that resolves to a table and double-click (render) the writetable node. I…
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by john
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Spotify API - Queen discography
Hello! I got know Nodebox last week during Frederik de Blesser's presentation at the Visualizing Knowledge seminar here in Helsinki. It's not the easiest thing to get started with, but I felt like my…
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by john
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Polygon Race
I found this mesmerizing animated GIF uploaded anonymously on imgur and reverse-engineered it. The design of dots racing around superimposed polygons is perfect for NodeBox. I was able to recreate it…
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packed text
Abusing fit and stack nodes to pack more than 1000 movie names into a poster takes less than 5 seconds, not that bad... go and try different seeds and colors it's one of those 'before you die' lists,…
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by rioch