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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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Download NodeBox for Mac OS X (version 1.9.4)
Universal Binary
Compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Recent updates:

  • 1.9.3 - Zooming
  • 1.9.3 - Boolean operations (union/intersect/difference)
  • 1.9.2 - Leopard compatibility, Python 2.5
  • 1.9.0 - Export to PNG, TIFF, JPEG and more.
  • 1.9.0 - Import NodeBox into any Python project.
  • 1.8.5 - Stop running scripts by hitting command-dot.
  • 1.8.5 - Fast, integrated path mathematics.

 


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 which goal is to develop an experimental, immersive internet visualizer. It'll look a bit like the movie Minority Report.

 


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