Welcome to NodeBox
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
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News
Perception: a new web application for NodeBox to play with. It allows concepts to be related to each other in a semantic network of common sense.
TUIO: Jannis Leidel wrote a library that addresses reacTIVision and allows you to monitor the state of tangible objects from inside NodeBox.
WiiNode: the WiiNode library for NodeBox connects the Wii Remote to NodeBox. Play games, draw pictures or invent your own fiitures!
Graph: the Graph library for NodeBox allows you to create and visualize networks of connected nodes, calculate shortest paths, cluster nodes into groups.
Colors: the Colors library for NodeBox offers a set of tools to work with color more conveniently: from color harmony rules to gradients, dropshadows and fuzzy color ranges.
Current projects
IWT Gravital: a NodeBox spin-off that links language to AI to design. Like NodeBox, you will be able to create visuals using simple Python code, but also using natural language (e.g. plain English) or a slick node-based interface.
VAF Creatures: an experimental project bordering between art and gaming. Insects will swarm around, plants will grow, life will virally adapt. As a player it will be your goal to keep life in balance.
IBBTDark Matter: a collaborative project including video artist Tom Heene, researchers from the Centre for Usability Research (Leuven) and the Wireless & Cable research group (Ghent), people from Lab-au, and people from NodeBox. Our goal is to develop an experimental, immersive internet visualizer in analogy to the movie Minority Report.
Gallery favorites
![]() Perception | ![]() Twisted World | ![]() Superfolia | ![]() Evolution | ![]() Prism |








