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.