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UPDATE: still bad at social media.
or more correctly social media is bad for me. but on top of the head injuries i tend to forget to check my email even... for weeks sometimes. i have a few questions about nodebox still. tweaking my '…
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by john
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Circle_Wave Node
NOTE: See below for an even better node: arcwave. A Nodebox user, edgeofinnerspace, asked how to wrap a sine wave around a circle. An excellent question! Nodebox doesn't have a node that will do this…
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by indefiniteness
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Cartan Library 3.2
Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library! Version 3.1 includes 120 nodes. All nodes are free for use with no restrictions. To use: with your current project open use File/Open Recent to o…
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by indefiniteness
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Improved Clip Node
Attached is the demo of a much improved, general purpose clip node. NOTE: SEE BELOW FOR AN EVEN BETTER VERSION THAT ALLOWS CLIPPING OUTSIDE. The clip node currently in my library doesn't work very we…
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by florisdejonge
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Align_labels and Align_numbers
TWO new nodes, designed to work together: alignlabels and alignnumbers. Arranging labels and numbers in neat columns is a bit of pain in Nodebox - if you're fussy. The stack node is great for quick a…
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Sign Node
Attached is a very simple but occasionally useful node: sign. Sign returns the sign of a number: -1 if the number is negative, +1 if the number is positive, or 0 if the number is 0 (or -0). This come…
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Image Node !
The ability to incorporate images into the pure vector world of NodeBox is probably the most often requested feature. My image node does not provide a true image object, but does the next best thing.…
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by john
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Inter_color and Morph_color Nodes
Attached is a demo showing TWO new nodes: intercolor and morphcolor. Intercolor returns intermediate shades between two colors based on a T value between 0 and 100. It is useful both for gradients an…
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by john
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Overlaps Node
Attached is a demo of a new node: overlaps Overlaps returns all possible intersections of up to ten overlapping shapes. One obvious application is Venn diagrams. The attached demo shows a five-way Ve…
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by Jussi
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Isometric Drawing Paper
Hot off the press: a system for making isometric drawings! The core system consists of three nodes: - isopaper draws a sheet of "paper" with an isometric grid. You can set: - Width - the width of the…
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Good_Center Node
Attached is a demo of a new node: Goodcenter. Goodcenter finds a reasonable center point guaranteed to be inside a shape (unlike centroid, which can fall outside a shape). The attached screenshot sho…
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World Map and Place_label Node
Attached is a demo of a new node, placelabel, which automatically sizes and places names into arbitrary shapes - in this case 176 different oddly-shaped countries. It can also serve as an example of…
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Replace Backdrop with Bound_box
I am doing a little cleanup work on my Cartan Node Library. Unless I hear a solid objection, I am going to deprecate one current node, backdrop, and replace it with a simpler node, boundbox. These ch…
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crazy paving
In the 1960s an American architecture professor, William Huff, coined the term ‘parquet deformation’ to mean a regular pattern of tiles that transforms as you go from left to right whilst maintaining…
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by john
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True Center Node
Attached is a new node: truecenter. It calculates the true center of regular polygons, stars, and fancy stars. The centroid node is used to determine the geometric center of a shape in Nodebox. It is…
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Fancy Star Node
Attached is a new node, fancystar. It makes it easy to create well-balanced stars with several coloring options. Of course Nodebox already has a star node which takes an inner and outer radius. This…
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Circle Circle
Another new node: circlecircle The circlecircle node finds the intersection points between two circles. - If the circles overlap, it will return two points - If the circles are tangent (touch in one…
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Distinct Points
Attached is a new node: distinctpts. Distinctpts works like the Nodebox distinct node for points. If you set its sensitivity to 0, it will remove all duplicate points in a list (based on positions ro…
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Cartan Library 3.1
Attached is the latest rev of my Cartan Node Library! Version 3.1 includes 107 nodes. All nodes are free for use with no restrictions. To use: with your current project open use File/Open Recent to o…
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by john
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Occlude Node
Attention Floris, Jussi, and other Nodebox plotters. Attached is a new node specially designed for plotters. NOTE: SEE BOTTOM OF THIS THREAD FOR AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THIS NODE Occlude takes a list…
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by john
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Occlusion
While working on my [landscape generator] (https://www.instagram.com/dejongefloris/) I was looking for a way to suggest depth. Since to plot such designs one would have to remove hidden lines when ce…
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by john
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Curves!
NOTE: This thread includes several updates. Use the updated versions of makecurve, fitcurve, and makecurve.py in the demo attached to my July 10 2019 comment, not the one attached to this comment. Un…
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by john
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3D Text Challenge
Yesterday Nodebox user and generative artist Jussi Jokinen posted an animation of 3D text on Instagram which he made in 2D using PaperJS. When I suggested it would be a fun project for Nodebox, he ch…
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by john
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Apply Color Node
Attached is the latest addition to my node library: applycolor. Applycolor simply takes a path or shape and recolors it using the properties of a reference object. Those properties are: - Fill Color…
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Prime numbers
Hi fellow Nodeboxers, Lately I've tried to use prime numbers. I got interested since it creates another possibility to create non-random patterns, other than a perlin noise or wave-function. Attached…
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by john
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Schematic representation of Paris avenues lengths
Hello, For my second project with Nodebox, I wanted to try to work with data. Paris city have a good collection of open datas, and I started by something simple = streets with their names and lengths…
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by john
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Scale_True Node
Attached is the latest addition to my node library: scaletrue. I've been meaning to make this node for years. The Nodebox scale node has an annoying quirk: it resizes objects but does not resize thei…
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Gothic Arch Node
I made this node for a project I am working on and thought I'd share it. Gothicarch draws a classic Gothic arch shape based on an equilateral triangle. It takes the following parameters: - Inner Widt…
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by julien
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Procedural fighter planes
Hello, I tried Nodebox a little bit last week, and I tried to generate a bunch of fighter planes, to learn how to draw with nodes (fighter planes are angular and quite symmetric , so I thought that i…
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by joe.s.clay
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Text on Circle Node
A new Nodebox user, Julien, recently asked this: Centering the text path in the middle? Is it possible to center a text path, instead of just choosing the beginning or the end for alignment? This cou…
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by john