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PC Shortcut Bug - How to Download 3.0.51
Freny (proceduraldisarray) writes: "I had a quick question related to NodeBox. I'm on version 3.0.52 using it on windows (10). This version has some wierd keyboard shortcuts. For eg. save is Meta+S.…
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Scattering Ellipses Without Overlapping
Seohyo asks "Is it possible to make scattered ellipses without overlapping?" She provides an example with ellipses of different sizes. Attached is one way of doing this using the "ScatterEvenly" node…
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Font_Table Node
Attached is a custom node that returns a table, organized by family and font name, of all fonts currently installed in your system. It requires fonttable.py (included) which must be added to your cod…
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Curve Node
My makecurve node is probably the single most useful node I've made. But it has one catch: it requires custom Python code (makecurve.py). This means that whenever you use it, you need to: - exit Node…
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Parabola and Trajectory Nodes
Attached are demos for two simple nodes: parabola and trajectory. Both produce a single quadratic curve (no resampling). Instead of the T and Distance parameters provided by the quadcurve node, these…
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Turtle Nodes
Attached is a demo with THREE new animation nodes: - turtlemorph: morph one polyline path into another - turtledrive: move a pointer around a polyline path - unwind: unwind a polyline path into a lin…
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Node Catalog
Attached is a demo with custom node that displays information about all 148 current NodeBox nodes. Its usefulness is dubious, but it does provide an example of how to make a custom node that introspe…
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Custom Node Test
The zip file in the attacment I uploaded is the wrong one, I've already created a new thread. Here is the new thread link: https://forum.nodebox.net/t/19549436/custom-node-test-fixed .
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Faster Grid_Plus Node
Gridplus is one of the most useful nodes in my node library. Defining the grid by cell size is usually much easier than figuring out the final dimensions of grid itself. It also lets you limit the to…
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Revised Tangent Node
I am slowly working away on the next update to my node library, not only adding new nodes but improving existing ones. Attached is a much improved version of my tangent node. My original node used a…
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Corner Node
The attached node finds one of the four corners - or four edge midpoints - of a a rectangle or the rectangular bounds of a shape. Just plug in the shape, choose one of the eight options, and the node…
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Push Pull
Attached is a new node, pushpull. The basic geometric shapes produced by existing NodeBox nodes like ellipse and polygon are precise and symmetrical. But sometimes you need more organic shapes that a…
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Augmented Reality Street Art using NodeBox
I recently tried a fun augmented reality experiment using NodeBox and a service for artists called Artivive: https://artivive.com You can try it for free with three pieces. You simply upload a still…
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Contours without a Custom Node
Even after all these years I am still learning new tricks from other users on the forum. One of the things not built-in to NodeBox is a node which can extract individual contours from a multi-contour…
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Door with Awning - Restored
For some reason my original post about this and most of the conversation thread that came after were deleted. I am reattaching the drawing and the animation. If anyone wants to see the NodeBox code t…
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Bounce
Here, for your animation pleasure, is a bounce node! This node is somewhat hard to describe. You really have to use it to see how it works. Like the wave node it produces numbers that could be used t…
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Style Text Node
Styletext provides something we normally take for granted but which until now has been all-but-impossible in Nodebox: paragraphs of styled text with some words in bold, some in italics, and even some…
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Arrange Node
The arrange node is a cross between a grid node and a stack node. You can use it to arrange a group of differently-sized shapes into tidy rows or columns without as much wasted space. The node takes…
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Evaluating Unneeded Branches on Switch Node
Another long-standing issue for the record... If you feed multiple chains into the ports of a switch node, only one will be selected for work downstream. But all of them will be evaluated nonetheless…
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Revert to Default
A bug / feature request for the record... The "Revert to Default" buttons in node dialogs work only in a limited way for core nodes and not at all for subnetworks. For core nodes they will set a numb…
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Color Picker
Here, for no apparent reason, is a color picker, executed in NodeBox. To change the hue, select the Hue node at the top and scrub the value. The black circle will rise and fall within the vertical hu…
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Poisson Node - Perpetual Motion
Attached is a demo of a new custom node: poisson. Poisson generates random but evenly spaced points within a given rectangular area using Poisson Disk Sampling. It requires the poisson.py python modu…
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Happy Holidays
A simple holiday card. Set the movie to loop and enjoy the falling snowflakes. Best wishes to the NodeBox community. Here's to a creative new year! John
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Drawing a Chess Piece with find_arc
Drawing complex curves (splines) is tricky in any tool. CADCAM users learn by practicing with drafting diagrams like this widely used diagram of a chess knight (attached). In order to do this kind of…
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CNC draw
Hi! Do any of you use cnc to draw your drawings? If so, which one does he use? Can easily connect to macos.
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Wine Rack
Here is a very simple abstract piece based on a wine rack from a Douro Valley winery in Portugal. It actually looks pretty similar to the photo I took. The network is built using my Hexgrid node alon…
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RaceTrack
Animation of two cars (blue and red dots) racing along a track. Although the cars move at the same speed, they seem to pull ahead and fall behind at various points during each circuit. This happens b…
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Cartan Node Library 1.0
UPDATE: Node Library 2.0 is now available including everything below plus 17 additional nodes. See https://forum.nodebox.net/t/19229950/cartan-node-library-2-0 After months of labor I am pleased to p…
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Waveform
As a newbie I was frustrated by the wave node. It's a simple mathematical function: give it an X and it will spit out a Y. But I wanted and expected to actually see the different kind of waves. Of co…
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Evolve
NOTE: This node was updated on July 5. If you downloaded it before then you should re-download this version. Evolve is a general purpose animation node which allows you to gradually change various pr…
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