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Coloring strokes with a raster graphics File
Hi John, As Nodebox Gradients "A long a Path" were made out of tiny shapes. "VexyLine" a kind of vector stroke effects app does that too. But using any raster graphic to color lines or Text. "Vexylin…
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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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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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Plotter Simulator
This is fun... I just came across a website that creates a realistic simulation of a plotter plotting any SVG you upload. Plotter noises and everything: https://killedbyapixel.github.io/VirtualPlotte…
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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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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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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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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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Subtree
Subtree is to hierarchies what slice is to lists. The subtree node extracts a subtree from a hierarchy. Like slice, it has an invert option which allows you to extract everything BUT the subtree. You…
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Success Puzzle
I occasionally like to use Nodebox to solve puzzles on Quora. Today's solution was particularly satisfying: Question: In how many ways can the letters of the word "success" be arranged such that no t…
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Sum By Level Node
Hierarchies become much more powerful when you can associate them with numbers. An org chart can not only show the names of each department or region, but can also show annual sales, current headcoun…
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Shapes (Formerly Symbol)
I decided to change the name of my symbol node to "shapes". This is more fitting, since some of the options are not really symbols. I changed the description to "A collection of useful shapes". I als…
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New Symbol: Infinity Loop
I have added a new shape to my symbol node: infinity loop. Infinity Loop is not a font character with multiple contours. It really is a loop. That is, it's a single closed path that starts in the cen…
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Change_Item Node
Changeitem replaces, adds, deletes, or alters an item in a list. It saves you the trouble of slicing up a list and then recombining it just to make a simple change. And, importantly, it guarantees th…
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Label Colors
Here, as promised, is my new labelcolors node. Labelcolors was designed to colorize the labels produced by my labelmaker node, but they will also work with any grouped label consisting of a container…
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Ripple Node
This is a cool one. Ripple randomly undulates the boundary of a path or shape using 4-dimensional noise. It's great for creating amoebae with oozing pseudopods or a jellyfish with gently wafting tent…
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Orderings IMPROVED
This is spring cleaning day in the Cartan Node Library. Another improved node: orderings. The orderings node returns a list of all the possible ways you could reorder n items where n varies from 1 to…
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Improvement to Mask Node
The mask node now automatically applies the color of the input path (as the clip node does). Other than that, the node works just as it did before. This improvement was suggested by Floris. Thanks, F…
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Noise Loop Node
It's official! We now have a seamless looping noise node. Noiseloop was developed in close collaboration with longtime Nodebox artist Floris de Jonge. Floris asked for a way to create seamless loopin…
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Match List Node
Another node that grew out of my recent collaboration with Floris. Matchlist takes a list and repeats and/or clips it so that it matches the length of a reference list. Whenever you have multiple lis…
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