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yancy

21 Nov, 2012 12:22 AM

I know that you can do this within a single node as per the Nodebox2 chrysanthemum example, but is it possible to perform recursion with multiple nodes? The best I can think of is creating multiple sub-networks in a loop, but I'm not sure how I would limit the amount of times that the loop is traveled.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Frederik De Ble... on 21 Nov, 2012 06:37 PM

   

   Looping, and thus recursion, is handled implicitly in NodeBox. That means that it is hard to simulate.

   That said, if you have a concrete use case I can think on how we can solve it in the application.

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2. 2 Posted by yancy on 21 Nov, 2012 09:51 PM

   

   Thanks Frederik. I thought that might be the answer. I still have a lot of modules to explore in Nodebox3. So I may still find something suitable.

   I was thinking mostly in terms of an L-system and how one might simulate plant growth in the new Nodebox.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Frederik De Ble... on 26 Nov, 2012 08:52 AM

   

   Creating L-systems in NodeBox – without using code – seems difficult.

   It's an interesting use case, however. We probably need to find some way to represent the L-system data so we can split the "generation" step with the "visualization" step.

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4. Frederik De Bleser closed this discussion on 26 Nov, 2012 08:52 AM.