Introduction to NodeBox

By Francesca -
Hello!

Francesca from the Alexa, Francesca, and Marsha group here. I decided to take on looking at other graphics applications and languages because I had previously

For this class I investigated NodeBox. Nodebox is interesting because it renders graphics and animation in Python. I'm not someone who knows very much about computer programming languages but I had at least heard of Python and knew that it was a widely used language.


The way you create in NodeBox is interesting. The image on the left is from the first version of NodeBox. You can see the code on the right and the resulting image on the left. The code is pure Python. It's actually really fun and easy to get it to make shapes and colors. I could see this program being taught to give people with no programming experience a taste of what programming is.

The second version of NodeBox was much better of an experience. This version has four panels on the user interface. It's easier to show a diagram so one I got from the NodeBox website is below. 
The Network panel allows you to choose nodes and attach them similarly as you would with Isadora, pd, or QuartzComposer. The code is generated automatically in the Source panel and is again written in Python. Any adjustable Parameters can be changed in the top right and your resulting image or animation is shown in the top left.

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