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The Green Dot Square Puzzle
I found this puzzle on Quora and decided to solve it using NodeBox... Given twelve dots in a cross pattern the puzzle is to find all possible squares where each corner of the square lands on a separa…
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by john
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Area Node and Find Radius
Here is a handy little subnetwork node: Area. Just hook it to any polygon and it will return the area of that polygon using the elegant shoelace formula. Works even with very complex shapes. If your…
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Who Likes Me?
My latest NodeBox project is a ginormous, information-packed poster tracking who likes me on Facebook. As discussed in the "I've Created a Monster" post in the NodeBox 3 thread, it was almost too big…
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by lucasnijs
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Balloons
Here is a whimsical little subnetwork node: balloons! Balloons takes seven parameters: - Boundary Shape. The area (e.g. rect or ellipse) in which the balloon centers will appear. - Amount. The number…
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by Frederik
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Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
The design for this enchanting visual proof of the Pythagorean Theorem is taken from "Beautiful Geometry" by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. They showed a still image of the proof for various possible trian…
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Perimeter Doodle
Sometimes I use NodeBox to help me think through a visual problem - in this case some of the different ways two rectangles can overlap and how that affects the perimeter of their union. After making…
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by john
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Morph
Attached is a handy general purpose subnetwork: Morph. Attach a colorized rectangle or list of rectangles to the leftmost "before" port, a different rectangle or set of rectangles to the rightmost "a…
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by john
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Real Time Sensor Art Installation
At a large computer conference in San Francisco last week I used NodeBox to create a simple art installation. Our team placed small sonic sensors around our demo tent. Whenever someone passed in fron…
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by john
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Power Usage Chart
My goal with this weekend project was to chart six and a half years of monthly electric bills in a way that was both informative and elegant. My solution shows month-by-year and year-by-month usage,…
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Hexagram Circle
This simple NodeBox network recreates a famous I Ching circular hexagram chart. The hexagrams are in the Fu Xi sequence, which is a direct binary translation of broken lines (0) and solid lines (1) w…
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by Frederik
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Gapminder NodeBox
This week's weekend project is a re-creation of Hans Rosling's famous Gapminder visualization. This is one of my favorite visualizations and I just wanted to see if I could make it in NodeBox. For mo…
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stereo
had my pair of red/cyan glasses and thought to make some animations in nodebox, mainly to check how the anaglyph effect looks with vectors... here are some simple files, you will need the glasses to…
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by c4632797
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Folding Fibonacci
My wife showed me this mesmerizing animated gif of a folding and unfolding fibonacci spiral. I tried to track down the original author but was unable to do so. So I decided to whip one up myself usin…
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by john
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cobweb
had some fun trying to make cobwebs around shapes nothing too serious so here is a file to play with
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by rioch
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modified metallica example
Hi, I'm trying to modify the Metallica example to fit my own idea however I can't get it to do what I want. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Basically what I'm trying to do is map an artist nam…
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by len
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research data visualisation
My first visualisation of research data by Nodebox+AI.
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by rioch
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Chart: 2014 U.S. Income by Percentile
I did this chart in a few hours as a response to a question on Quora: "How can I see (or make) a chart that shows household income in the United States (including capital gains) by decile (or even be…
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Strasbourg debt simple dataviz
Hi, This my very first visual success in using Nodebox for datavisualization. Hope you'll enjoy ;) OB.
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by o.bubendorff
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Maximum Length String Trimmer (Plus Bug Report)
This is a simple subnetwork that may come in handy on many projects. Just feed it a string and a maximum length. If the string is less than or equal to that length it will pass through unchanged. If…
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by john
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Forest and Trees Movie Maker
This 9-node network makes a very boring movie of a counter. But the concept it illustrates is pretty cool. As shown in the screenshot, the network draws all 100 frames of the movie at once and arrang…
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Siskel & Ebert Chart
I came across a list of famous film reviewers Siskel & Ebert’s Top Ten lists over 30 years and wondered: What films did they agree on? Did their tastes converge? How did their choices align with the…
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christmas cara
a christmas card for my gf which was inspired by watching the space x rocket launch / landing. Special thanks to John for helping me out Merry christmas
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by lucasnijs
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Word Tangler
Another ponarv (project of no apparent redeeming value) which demonstrates NodeBox's unique capabilities... I was curious what would happen if I replaced segments of a path with alternating convex an…
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NodeBox Machine
This is a doodle that got completely out of hand. I accidentally made a kind of cranking thing, then wondered if I could attach it to a tread. One thing led to another and before I knew it I had this…
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by Frederik
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Seven Orders of Magnitude
I was curious just how far I can zoom into and out of the NodeBox Canvas. So I made this extremely simple example, NodeBox file and screenshot attached. The NodeBox network consists of seven rectangl…
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by john
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Paper Snowflakes
Attached, just for fun, is a paper snowflake generator. As you can see from the screenshot, the network is quite simple, consisting primarily of a "paper" node and an "unfold" node. To cut the folded…
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by lucasnijs
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Sailing Ship
I was working on a NodeBox network that draws bits and pieces of org charts when my wife walked past and said my network looked like a sailing ship. I hadn't tried to make it look like anything, just…
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Hex Clump
Just for fun, a quick little NodeBox network that draws a hexagonal clump of dots. The dots are arranged in concentric rings of hexagrams. Three nodes at the top of the network control dot size, marg…
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by john
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Drop First Column
Attached is an extremely simple but useful little subnetwork called drop1stcol. All it does is remove the first column of a CSV file. It takes a single input from an importcsv node and then behaves e…
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by john
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Multi Line Strings
Sometimes I need to label my visuals with strings from cvs files. This can be frustrating when the strings are long, and need to be broken over multiple lines. Previously I would just write out the s…
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by john