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Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
The design for this enchanting visual proof of the Pythagorean Theorem is taken from "Beautiful Geometry" by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. They showed a still image of the proof for various possible trian…
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Display debug text from Python referenced by node
Hi! I'm new to nodeBox but made some cool things so far. I'm starting to write my own python function but can't get any debug text to show in the console, was hoping print output would be displayed t…
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Nodebox on Raspberry Pi?
Hi, I used to play with Quartz Composer on Mac. Now my Mac died and I'm using Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi for the moment. Searching for a replacement for Quartz Composer, I found Pure Data, Fugio and…
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Power Usage Chart
My goal with this weekend project was to chart six and a half years of monthly electric bills in a way that was both informative and elegant. My solution shows month-by-year and year-by-month usage,…
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Gapminder NodeBox
This week's weekend project is a re-creation of Hans Rosling's famous Gapminder visualization. This is one of my favorite visualizations and I just wanted to see if I could make it in NodeBox. For mo…
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Chart: 2014 U.S. Income by Percentile
I did this chart in a few hours as a response to a question on Quora: "How can I see (or make) a chart that shows household income in the United States (including capital gains) by decile (or even be…
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Weird Bug
I think I have uncovered an obscure NodeBox bug that caused me to question my sanity until I was finally able to replicate it. It appears that when you do a lookup using a list of keys, and if the ra…
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Forest and Trees Movie Maker
This 9-node network makes a very boring movie of a counter. But the concept it illustrates is pretty cool. As shown in the screenshot, the network draws all 100 frames of the movie at once and arrang…
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Feature Request: Window Management Improvements
Dear NodeBox team, I've been meaning to make this request for over a year now. Actually a few requests, ranked from extremely easy to harder but more useful... Every single time I open NodeBox I go t…
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Saving custom nodes
Hello there! I made a few simple helper custom nodes in Python. I wonder if there's any way to save them so I can use them later in all my projects. Thanks!
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Siskel & Ebert Chart
I came across a list of famous film reviewers Siskel & Ebert’s Top Ten lists over 30 years and wondered: What films did they agree on? Did their tastes converge? How did their choices align with the…
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Apparatus - Interactive Diagrams
Apparatus is a NodeBox-like interactive diagram editor from Alan Kay's CDG think tank: http://aprt.us I post this link here because it shows an interesting approach to enabling user input directly to…
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Word Tangler
Another ponarv (project of no apparent redeeming value) which demonstrates NodeBox's unique capabilities... I was curious what would happen if I replaced segments of a path with alternating convex an…
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NodeBox Works Fine with El Capitan
Just passing this along in case anyone else is wondering about whether it's safe to upgrade... I finally installed OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) on my Mac tonight. I was a little worried that NodeBox mig…
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Nodox: a javascript based, Nodebox inspired project
I've been amazed by Nodebox, about the possibilities with node based generative design. Not being able to find a javascript version, I started a project that could produce imagery in the same way Nod…
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Sailing Ship
I was working on a NodeBox network that draws bits and pieces of org charts when my wife walked past and said my network looked like a sailing ship. I hadn't tried to make it look like anything, just…
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Cycle Flows on the TFL Network
Data from Transport for London on cycle flows. Data are in 13 4 week periods which makes life awkward, but I have translated the periods to months as best as possible (they change every year). The ba…
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Pi walking
This visualisation of pi assigns a color to each digit and an angle. Each time a digit is encountered a rect of the color is created and the origin moves by the relevant angle a distance the height o…
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Recursion
Hello all, I'm trying to create illustrations similar to the attached image (recursive patterns based off phi/golden mean). However I can't find a way to achieve this simply. Is there no recussion su…
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Multi-Threading.
Do you have any plans to support Multi-Threading? I have some not so complicated networks that are running and using %100.00 usage on a macbook pro 2012 and it is just insanely slow. I searched the f…
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NodeBox Import error unable to find module random (line 2 of pyvector.py)
Hi everybody, on a clean download of NodeBox, every time I add a new polygon to my network, NodeBox application returns an error: unable to import random for the file pyvector.py at line 2 : from ran…
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Isometric Pictograms
I did this quickly just for fun to show a basic technique. The idea is that you can use NodeBox to slice up a single SVG file of isometric objects and use those objects to build a pictogram. The atta…
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Nodebox. Java. Yosemite.
What's the recommended way to get nodebox working on OSX Yosemite. Java 6 from Apple, Java 8 from Oracle.
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Huge CSV
Hi, I'm working on a project that has a huge CSV file (1.3 Go), and I'd love to use NodeBox, but I can't seem to make it work. I already augmented the memory in Info.plist <string-Xms512m -Xmx4096m -…
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Image from text
I actually made this from the 1st column of the earth quick data provided in the samples.
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Custom Node tutorial
I've just worked my way through the custom tutorial. This raised a comment and some questions: Comment - In the shader section of the tutorial, the nodes Multiply 1 and Add 1 dont seem necessary to p…
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RapydBox Update / Chrome
Hello, RapydBox has beeb updated and works now on Chrome (Version 33.0.1750.152) / Mac OS Scripts and Images can now be saved I have add some more examples Look at the attached image : 15 lines of co…
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Demos...
Here are the first (visible) images made with RapydBox http://www.artbreak.com/Salvatore
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Feature request: Disabling outlining fonts in PDF export
I think it would be pretty useful to have the option of normal textpaths remaining editable when exporting to pdf in Nodebox 3? You often want to be able to make text corrections in a finalized graph…
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3d nodes
a few 3d nodes would be nice to have... here's a test project:
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