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It looks nice, and seems to have a great community. It could learn from graphviz and matplotlib though, and have a gallary of examples complete with code snippe

by wisty 17y ago

It looks nice, and seems to have a great community. It could learn from graphviz and matplotlib though, and have a gallary of examples complete with code snippets. See http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php and http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html The NodeBox gallery is mostly about other projects that use NobeBox. That is nice if you want to learn about linguistics or fractals, but not so great for just learning NodeBox features. I really love the matplotlib and graphviz galleries. Visualization of the feature, plus working code. Otherwise, it looks very sweet. Edit - I'm browsing through the "Examples" directories in the installation. It's pretty cool.

llimllib 17y ago
like the gallery at http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Gallery http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Gallery ?
- wisty 17y ago
  I've seen that gallery, but it's more a showcase of external projects than a bunch of feature examples. The NodeBox gallery shows a lot of cool projects (something that Graphviz and matplotlib only hint at), but it's not much use for a new user who wants to look at pretty pictures, and then tinker with the code. If you want to find out how to draw a graph in NodeBox, you click on the "graph" gallery. Then you click on the "graph" wikilink. Then you scroll through the graph tutorial until you find some code that you can run. You still can't re-create the gallery picture, but you can do something similar, I guess. In graphviz and matplotlib, you go from the gallery image to the code that created it in one click. It's much easier to discover their features. Like I said though, NodeBox looks very cool. The images are slick, it looks very powerful, and the community looks very smart.
  - llimllib 17y ago
    Hmm, that's not true for all of them: http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Fireworks http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Fireworks http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Cornucopia http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Cornucopia but I was working off memory, and you're right, they're not all like that. They should probably be seperated somehow?
    - wisty 17y ago
      Separating them (or just tagging the ones that can be pasted into the code window) would be nice. The real issue is that everything useful (the tutorial, reference, and library) is indexed by command name. The graphviz and matplotlib galleries index the commands by pictures. That's a lot more discoverable and visual.

by wisty 17y ago

llimllib 17y ago

like the gallery at http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Gallery http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Gallery ?

wisty 17y ago
I've seen that gallery, but it's more a showcase of external projects than a bunch of feature examples. The NodeBox gallery shows a lot of cool projects (something that Graphviz and matplotlib only hint at), but it's not much use for a new user who wants to look at pretty pictures, and then tinker with the code. If you want to find out how to draw a graph in NodeBox, you click on the "graph" gallery. Then you click on the "graph" wikilink. Then you scroll through the graph tutorial until you find some code that you can run. You still can't re-create the gallery picture, but you can do something similar, I guess. In graphviz and matplotlib, you go from the gallery image to the code that created it in one click. It's much easier to discover their features. Like I said though, NodeBox looks very cool. The images are slick, it looks very powerful, and the community looks very smart.
- llimllib 17y ago
  Hmm, that's not true for all of them: http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Fireworks http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Fireworks http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Cornucopia http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Cornucopia but I was working off memory, and you're right, they're not all like that. They should probably be seperated somehow?
  - wisty 17y ago
    Separating them (or just tagging the ones that can be pasted into the code window) would be nice. The real issue is that everything useful (the tutorial, reference, and library) is indexed by command name. The graphviz and matplotlib galleries index the commands by pictures. That's a lot more discoverable and visual.