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Munker Illusion
The Munker Illusion. The only things changing in this animation are the positions of the two circles. All colors remain fixed. Both circles are the same color. Enjoy! John
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Concat_List
Attached is a very simple custom node that fills a gap in NodeBox: concatlist NodeBox has a way of turning a string into a list of substrings (the makestring node), but no way to do the reverse. You…
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Intersect Path Node
I have improved the intersect line node I released a few months ago. Attached is a demo network with a new, more general purpose node, intersect. Intersect finds the intersection points between a lin…
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Clean Font Morph
Morphing cleanly from one font to another is difficult. The morphing itself is easy. The hard part is getting the text paths (or any two complex paths) properly aligned so that corresponding lines mo…
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Can we use the NodeBox 1 library from within NodeBox 3?
Hi Frederik, I haven't spent much time looking at NodeBox 1, but by chance stumbled upon the NodeBox Library and was amazed at all the wonderful things there. My Python skills are fairly primitive an…
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Intersect Subnetwork
UPDATE: I have now released a more comprehensive node that can find intersections between a line and another line, a bezier curve, or a general path (composed of multiple lines and curves). See posti…
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Kolam Joined
Attached is my second project riffing on the ancient Indian art form of Kolam. See my previous "Kolam" project for more details. This version creates a mesmerizing video by merging four distinct kola…
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Kolam
Kolam is an ancient Indian art form consisting of patterns traced around an array of dots. I find the patterns relaxing, intriguing, and almost musical. It was an interesting challenge animating kola…
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Three Same Digits Puzzle
How many four-digit integers have three of its digits the same and different from the fourth (like 1113)? Count the number of red squares in the image to find the answer. If you zoom in, a valid four…
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Where do they cross?
This optical illusion is floating around the web - not sure where it came from. But I was curious how it worked, so recreated it in NodeBox and turned it into an animation. To make it I converted the…
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Acre of Cars
Someone on Quora asked me for ways of visualizing how big an acre is. I said "What about an acre of cars?" and used NodeBox to come up with a quick infographic. The network is pretty straightforward.…
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Possible to change background color of network panel?
Hi, when working on Nodebox 3 with my students I use a projector. While on the PC screen it's no problem to see the lines connecting nodes in the network panel, when projecting onto a screen the line…
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Nodebox.live
I have long wanted to try Nodebox live. I want to be a beta tester. Several times left a request on the site and even when there was only an announcement. But the site is writing to me. "Please try a…
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Amateur Mathematics
Today I happened across a fascinating article about a breakthrough in graph theory in Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-2018041…
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Animation: Fracture!
Another harmless doodle. Enjoy! John
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Windchime
On a recent trip to Tlaquepaque, Mexico, I came across a shop selling windchimes consisting of a central metal plate surrounded by a dozen or so increasingly large metal frames. As the whole assembly…
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Visual Tasks
This demo creates animations for six basic visual tasks which are easy for people to do, but hard for computers. For each one I created a NodeBox solution. If you find the need to perform similar fea…
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Little Houses (Animation)
Attached is another midnight doodle. Necker Cubes can cause your visual system to flip back and forth between two possible interpretations; depending on where you look the cubes seem to pop inward or…
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NodeBox options for reacting in realtime to MIDI or OSC?
I see that NodeBox for OpenGL supports PureData and OSC. Is OSC the only (or best) way to get NodeBox to react in realtime to music applications such as Reaktor? Is there any support for MIDI (instea…
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Directory Nodes
The attached zip file contains a folder and demo file with two custom nodes: listfiles and listfolders. Both nodes require a folder path (starting from your desktop). listfiles will return a list of…
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A VERY Obscure and Harmless Bug
Frederik, Attached are two simple networks: redraw good and redraw bad. Both are almost identical. Both work just fine. But here is something strange: if you open redraw bad in a text editor and look…
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Collapsing Star
Another animation of no apparent redeeming value. This grew out of a quick demo I made while helping a fellow NodeBox user. Just to see what would happen I added a frame node to animate it and then s…
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NodeBox 3.0.49
Turns out we didn't really have the right-click bug under control. I went through the code with a fine tooth comb and found a weird edge case where you could trigger the error when dragging nodes whi…
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Shutter
I was curious how a camera's diaphragm shutter works, so decided to make one in NodeBox. NodeBox is great for projects like this because it allows you to feel your way through a problem, trying diffe…
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Need help to approach this style of art
Here is what I am trying to accomplish, http://simplify.thatsh.it/ It basically takes an image and simplifies it into very basic elements, Kadinskly style, well his lesser complex works anyway, that…
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Polygon Race
I found this mesmerizing animated GIF uploaded anonymously on imgur and reverse-engineered it. The design of dots racing around superimposed polygons is perfect for NodeBox. I was able to recreate it…
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Just a quick question
Hi, I was considering using Node Box for a couple of projects, but I just wanted to know about something a bit specific about your visual programming system. Is there any form of native alternative t…
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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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Nodebox Linguistics can't run with Jython because sgmllib is deprecated
I have downloaded the Nodebox English Linguistics from here: https://www.nodebox.net/code/index.php/Linguistics I am unable to load the library using Jython because Python 3 no longer has the sgmllib…
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How Fast is NodeBox? How Fast Could it Be?
A philosophical question... Comparing the performance of one language to another is tricky since it's always apples to oranges. Things easy in one language are hard in another. NodeBox does some thin…
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