Nodebox Strings Tutorial, Randomized Zapfino Characters

By Experimental Media Group From http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Strings Updated 3 months ago (19 Aug 2008 at 05:48 AM) history recent activity

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In Brief: An example from the Nodebox Strings tutorial section, showing what good times can be had by tossing a jumble of randomly selected characters onto a canvas.... more

Language Nodebox Python

# 's

 1#Zapfun
 2
 3size(400,400)
 4
 5fill(0.2)
 6rect(0,0,WIDTH,HEIGHT)
 7
 8fill(1)
 9stroke(0.2)
10strokewidth(1)
11font('Zapfino')
12
13for i in range(80):
14    
15    fontsize(random(400))
16    rotate(random(360))
17    
18    chars = 'absdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
19    p = textpath(choice(chars),
20                 random(WIDTH),
21                 random(HEIGHT))
22    drawpath(p)

An example from the Nodebox Strings tutorial section, showing what good times can be had by tossing a jumble of randomly selected characters onto a canvas.

Due to the stochastic component in this code, your output will most likely vary from the example shown here.