Tutorial

The original Nodebox tutorial pages are an excellent introduction to the concepts that you’ll also find in Shoebot.

• Introduction – generative art, computational design, and getting started

• Basics

  • Environment – the basics about the Nodebox working environment

  • Primitives – command parameters and drawing shapes

  • Graphics state – how shapes can be rotated and transformed

• Data

  • Variables – saving values and reusing them

  • Lists – sequences of variables

  • Strings – manipulating and working with text

• Strategy

  • Repetition – doing things over and over

  • Commands – creating custom behaviors

  • Classes – more advanced coding concepts

  • Libraries – going beyond the core

• Specifics

  • Animation

  • Interaction – working with the keyboard and mouse

  • Color – grasping color objects

  • Math – geometry and other applied math concepts

• Bézier Paths

  • Paths – the basics of Béziers

  • Manipulating paths – tweaking points on a path

  • Path Mathematics finding points in a path, inserting new ones

  • Path Filters applying effects on a path

  • Compound paths – path operations (unsupported?)

  • Clamping paths – limiting paths to a box (unsupported?)

• Advanced

  • Console

We’ve omitted the tutorials that relate to Mac-specific details or non-implemented features (like Psyco support). See the Nodebox tutorial page for all of them.