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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.

Download NodeBox for Mac OS X (version 1.9.5)
Universal Binary
Compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and
10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and
Mountain Lion (10.8) users:
Download the experimental 1.9.7 build.

Recent updates:

1.9.4 - "Stop" method
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

NodeBox Workshops: view the results of current and past NodeBox workshops.
Studying at the Experimental Media Research Group: graduate students with an interest in computer graphics are welcome to come and stay with the NodeBox development team for a while.
Perception: a web application for NodeBox to play with. It allows concepts to be related to each other in a semantic network of common sense.
Vampyr!: contemporary music + live performance with a NodeBox installation.

Current projects

NB3 NodeBox 3: NodeBox 3 is cross-platform and has a node-based GUI. The foundation for NodeBox 3 was laid during the Gravital research project. Development is in full swing.

NOGL NodeBox for OpenGL: cross-platform version developed for rendering fast animation of images. It is used as the game engine for City In A Bottle, a game on evolution by natural selection.

Gallery favorites

Nanophysical

Creature

Perception

Superfolia

Evolution