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Hope for the frustrated programmer in every graphic designer and for the graphic designer in every programmer.

If you are on the net you fall into one of this two categories:

• the graphic designer that never quite made it to Flash programming because never understood what an iteration was
• the computer engineer that one day discovered Photoshop but never went further than using a lens flare filter

Well your troubles could be over thanks to NodeBox, an open source automated design bot that will allow you to create appealing visual output with really simple programming code.

Initially, the application targets an audience of designers, with an easy set of commands that is both intuitive and creative, but seeing the result of the algorithms one can see that any programmer capable of using NodeBox can learn a great deal about shape, color and composition. And if you get tired of static images, just change some parameters over time and you’ll get yourself a a nice piece of animation too.

NodeBox is being developed by Frederik De Bleser and you can download the Mac only version at Nodebox.net

It’s quite easy to discover the beauty in both the algorithm and the visual output. Who knows who will be the next John Maeda.

Here’s the output image:

Here’s the algorithm that generated the image:

size(320,320)

white = color(1,1,1,0.9)

red = color(1,0,0,0.9)

black = color(0,0,0,0.9)

for i in range(100):

    fill(choice((white,red,black)))

    font(”Arial Bold”)

    fontsize(random(320))

    text(u”™”, random(500),random(400))

    text(u”®”, random(500),random(400))

    text(u”©”, random(500),random(400))

fill(choice((white,red,black)))

font(”Arial Bold”)

fontsize(50)

text(”ganyet.com”, 50, 300)