Google AI now understands Nodebox
Last year I tested Google's Gemini AI by asking it what Nodebox is. It muffed the answer, confusing it with other tech terms containing the word "Node" and hallucinating details.
I tried it again tonight and was impressed by the answer. I even asked several increasingly arcane follow-up questions and received remarkable answers: not only accurate but richly detailed and deeply insightful.
You can see a transcript of my interactions here:
https://share.google/aimode/fHV38l17nq1nqhQ9M
My followup questions were:
- Does Nodebox allow recursion?
- What is the Cartan Node Library?
- How can I use the Cartan Node Library to create seamless animation loops using two-dimensional time?
I am impressed.
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1 Posted by florisdejonge on 24 May, 2026 06:35 AM
Hi John,
Thanks for sharing this. It indeed seems to 'know' the software, the website and the forum. I have more or less noticed the same. I was still developing some scripts for custom nodes, but recently I found the results from Gemini more usable than Claude's (which also has a limit of use, which hampers the iterative development). Since, I have improved the Voronoi-node, I also have an Intersect-node, and have a quite good Offset-node (and some Image-filter nodes).
Floris
Support Staff 2 Posted by john on 24 May, 2026 08:01 AM
Floris,
Interesting! All three of those nodes sound tasty, especially offset (which I have sometimes attempted in Nodebox with little success). I would love to see demos of these whenever you feel ready to publish.
John