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Revamped shoebot.net

tian — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:27:57 +0000

The redesign of shoebot’s website is now live, go visit it now! It’s still missing some content and cleansing up, so feel free to leave your Critiques and Comments.

Last.fm API visualizations

tian — Sat, 01 May 2010 06:35:30 +0000

A small experiment with Nodebox/Shoebot, and as an excuse to use the Last.fm API, beat.py is a visualisation of related artists, provided by data from Last.fm

It features a simple use of several simple commands for Nodebox and as a small demo for pylast
The code is available on github at http://github.com/tian2992/botboxvis

Gotta Love Nodebox

tian — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:56:54 +0000

I really like Nodebox. The idea of mixing the Ease of use and Power of Python with the Rendering of Quartz, is simply great. One of my favourite things about it is the great quality of the rendering; it’s just gorgeous.

Within a few hours, I went back to the level I had a few years ago, when I started with Nodebox.
One of the greatest things about it is the Excellent Typographic support, courtesy AAT and Quartz.

The only grip I used to have against it was the limit on libraries, as Nodebox restricts the Python environment, but after a few hours, I got a very simple solution:

mkdir /Applications/NodeBox/NodeBox.app/Contents/Resources/Python
ln -s /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages /Applications/NodeBox/NodeBox.app/Contents/Resources/Python

After this, all the import statements worked as a charm, so now it’s time to make use of it.