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Improved Draw_Table
Attached is an improved version of my drawtable node. Drawtable converts a data table to a graphical object that you can include in your output. It produces a table that looks somewhat like the data…
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Probability Puzzle
Just for fun I used NodeBox to answer the following puzzle, posed on Quora: There is a game where you draw 7 numbers. In total there are 36 numbers, which are six ones, six twos, six threes, till six…
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Luma Colors Node
Another addition to the color theory wing of the Cartan Node Library: Lumacolors. Lumacolors is a new way of generating random colors. In contrast to my Colors node, which generates colors between a…
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Mix Node
Continuing the cavalcade of new nodes... The mix node! Mix is an alternative to the heavily used combine node. Combine takes up to 7 lists and spits out all of list 1, then all of list 2, etc. Mix, i…
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Adjust Fill Node
Suppose you have created a complex composition, say a bouquet of balloons with little stars on them, and you want to just tweak the colors a bit. Maybe heighten the saturation or decrease the alpha a…
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Products Node
If you ever need the sum of a list of numbers, you have the sum node. And if you need a running total of a list of numbers, there is the runningtotal node (or my runningstart node). But what if you n…
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HCL Color Node
In addition to adding the CLH / HCL color space to my update of the palette node, I am also releasing it as a separate node. The HCLColor node works very much like the RGBColor and HSBColor nodes: Th…
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Color Brewer Node
Attached is yet another new color node. Colorbrewer allows you to choose a color palette based on the widely used ColorBrewer system. The Color Brewer system was developed by Dr. Cynthia Brewer at th…
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Change Color Node
What if you have a list of different colors and you want to change just one color property of all those colors at once? Maybe you want to see what would happen if you lowered the saturation or increa…
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Inscribe Node
The attached inscribe node inscribes one shape into the center of another. By "inscribe" I mean that the shape is placed at the center of the container shape and then scaled up until some part of it…
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Surround Node
Attached is the demo for a very simple node: surround. Give surround a circle and it will return a ring of N circles, each the same size, and each tangent to the central circle and to each other. N c…
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Poly_labels Node
Polylabels takes any closed polygon and draws it with interior angles labeled in blue and side lengths labeled in red. If you give it other shapes (simple lines, open paths, self-crossing paths, curv…
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Set_type Node
There are three types of points in NodeBox. Type 1 points are the normal points created by a point node and used to form the endpoints of lines and the corners of polygons. Bézier curves start with t…
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Gradual Change Node
Attached is a new node, gradual, which creates a list of numbers that gradually change. Although it seems to be a math-centric node, most of its uses are for visual effects: interesting curves or rea…
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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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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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End Point is then Start Point and so on.
So I've read most of what I thought would be the related documentation on the site and pretty thoroughly scanned over majority of the rest especially the node references (which by the way, only shows…
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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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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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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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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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Blend Color Node
Attached is a simple but handy little node: blendcolor. Blendcolor returns the solid color formed when a translucent foreground color is placed over a solid background color. The demo shows a Venn di…
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Fragments and Metaballs
Attached is a demo for a revised node, Fragments, and a new node, Metaballs. Fragments takes a list of overlapping shapes and returns the fragments arising from the spaces between those shapes. The c…
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Order Left to Right Top to Bottom
It is sometimes necessary to sort a set of points into a predictable LRTB (Left to Right, Top to Bottom) order. The first time I had to do this I thought it was too unusual to merit inclusion in my N…
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