Patternodes 3.2.3
Free Trial Version
Publisher Description
The node sequence is completely non-destructive, so you can change any step in the sequence at any time without having to redo anything. This makes it easy to tweak repetition counts or element properties and instantly see the end result. The parameters that control each node can also be connected to other nodes, establishing complex relationships where one property controls another. And finally all of these node parameters can be animated using keyframes in a timeline.
Patternodes is designed from the start to stimulate playful use and experimentation, therefore the result is always shown in the preview view updating in real time. There is also extensive inline help features, warnings, sample files and even a manual to help you use the software.
Inspiration
There is a collection of projects that could work as inspiration for what you could use Patternodes for here on Behance:
Inspiration on Behance
About Patternodes
Patternodes is a free trial software published in the Other list of programs, part of Graphic Apps.
This program is available in English. It was last updated on 23 April, 2024. Patternodes is compatible with the following operating systems: Mac.
The company that develops Patternodes is Lost Minds. The latest version released by its developer is 3.2.3. This version was rated by 5 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.2.
The download we have available for Patternodes has a file size of 16.78 MB. Just click the green Download button above to start the downloading process. The program is listed on our website since 2023-11-01 and was downloaded 1,001 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Patternodes as malware if the download link is broken.
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Program Details
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| Publisher | Lost Minds |
| Released Date | 2023-11-01 |
| Languages | English |
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| Category | Graphic Apps |
| Subcategory | Other |
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| Operating systems | mac |
Download information |
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| File size | 16.78 MB |
| Total downloads | 1,001 |
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| License model | Free Trial |
| Price | $39.00 |
Version History
version 3.2.3
posted on 2023-11-01
Changes and fixes:
- Some improvements to connection socket snapping and highlighting of suitable sockets.
- Fix a rare issue where it would be impossible to add connections to specific valid node sockets.
- You can now no longer connect node graphics connections to inputs/outputs in the same node, avoiding the infinite recursion error you'd get before when trying to do this.
- Fixed nodes created with drag and drop files would not align properly to grid snap.
- Removed deprecated EPS export format option that is no longer supported on macOS 14 and later (still available on older versions).
version 3.2.2
posted on 2023-09-19
Changes and fixes:
- Fix issue with importing vector graphics with very large sizes causing memory issues.
- Fix Group Arrange node not arranging elements with change mode set to a selection instead of all elements.
- Fix incorrect text size in Element Text nodes imported from Patternodes 2 files.
- Improved handling of file access errors on import.
- Added Lost Minds Mastodon link to Help menu.
version 3.2.1
posted on 2023-07-14
Changes and improvements:
- The Group Arrange node can now sort elements based on size.
- Improved precision hovering and clicking connections in the node editor.
- Dropped/imported graphics are now get their physical size set automatically in the new node.
- Improved error messages on file access permission issues when importing files.
Bugfixes:
- Correctly handle complex unicode-pair characters (like SF symbols) in the Value Substring node.
- Fix incorrect size issue on scaled animated svg exports.
- Fix incorrect physical size shown for imported vector graphics.
- Fix animated artboard background being static in animated svg exports.
- Fix Edit menu Copy artboard bitmap copying vector graphics.
- Remove incorrect file permission dialogue when exporting animated svg file.
version 3.2.0
posted on 2023-05-29
Changes and improvements:
- String value connections allow you to now connect text string values between nodes and parameters just like values.
- New Value String node to define and combine linked strings.
- New Value Substring node to extract parts of strings.
- The Data Table node can now also output strings for table cells.
- New editor context menu item to center the nodes in the view, and an option in the settings to always do this on file load.
- Element Text node can now use both size modes and tracking adjustment for any length text for better consistency with dynamic text input.
- Updates some components for future compatibility, raising minimum required macOS version to 10.15.
Bug fixes:
- Fixes a bug in the Table data editor panel when toggling the first row headers option while editing a table cell.
- Stroke width is now included in path bounds calculations when set, even if stroke opacity is 0.
Patternodes 3 now requires macOS 10.15 or later to run.
version 3.1.4
posted on 2023-04-28
Changes and improvements:
- New Time Period value node making it easier to set up periodic alternating value animations.
- Group Apply Function node now has an index offset parameter when unsing index input.
- Increased the max number of supported variables in the Math node to 10.
- Added a warning to GIF animation exports explaining some format framerate limitations.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with quicktime video exports dropping frames if the encoder was busy.
- Fixed a crash when adding a new node index node directly connected to a group apply function node.
version 3.1.3
posted on 2023-02-09
Fixes and improvements:
- Added an option to Pivot point node to ignore stoke when automatically aligning the pivot, useful for stroked elements that will later be scaled.
- Fixed an offset issue with pivot-offset elements reprated with the Radial repeater node.
- Fixes the Math node variable detection picking up decimal separators in expressions as variable names.
- Updated and corrected the Math node reference documentation.
- Fixed dark mode selection type icons.
version 3.1.2
posted on 2023-02-06
New features and improvements:
- Math Node now has support for up to 8 variable parameters that are automatically named and shown based on the expression.
- Improved SVG image mode imports/rendering (Upgrade to IJSVG 3.0 framework).
Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug where typing in new values into an animated value field would revert the value displayed in the field.
- Fixed bug with undo/redo in expression parameter fields.
- Fixed a bug with some rare SVG path commands parsing.
version 3.1.1
posted on 2023-01-09
New features and improvements:
- Better color model support. Color parameters can now be set and stored in different colorspaces/models (like Grayscale and CMYK) instead of always being converted to RGB and losing precision. This will also mean some exported colors will look different compared to older versions, so there is an option added in the settings to keep the old conversion to get the same output.
- Made it easier to find the Value Time function node by also placing it in a new Animation category in the add node menu.
- You can now use middle-mouse button for panning in the preview just like in the node editor view.
- Updated manual.
- Added link to user Discord channel in the Help menu.
Bug fixes:
- Some fixes and improvements to the Color node numeric color mode based on the new color model features.
- Fixed dragging a selection box outside of the node editor not scrolling it correctly.
- Fixed the cursor not resetting properly after middle-mouse button panning of the node editor view.
- Fixed issue where right-clicking a second time after dragging out a new connection would leave a broken connection with a loose end.
- Fixed issue where it was possible to duplicate the Artboart node, causing issues since there should only be one and it can't be deleted.
- Stability improvement and better error messages if something goes wrong during file exports.
- Stability improvement and better error messages when trying to save files that have invalid connections or nodes.
version 3.1.0
posted on 2022-10-17
New features and improvements:
- New Value Table node lets you import and edit value tables and use in you node graph, enabling a lot of new data visualization usecases.
- New Value Condition node lets you set up new complex logic rules for linked values.
- New Condition mode in the Group Select node lets you select elements based on size or position rules.
- New Value Function node replaces the Value Remap node and lets you remap value ranges with a lot more control using many different functions.
- New data visualization and tutorial sample files added.
- The Group Apply function node can now use element size as an input parameter.
- Improved SVG import path parsing.
- Updated Sparkle version checking and updates library.
- Improved Import Node aspect correction when switching import mode or loading new graphics, and a restore original aspect context menu item as been added.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed Group Select node not working properly when input was a single element.
- Fixed a bug where it would be impossible to delete nodes with Node index parameters if there were no change or repeater nodes.
- Fixed Group Select node not displaying selection preview correctly if no elements were selected.
- Fixed value function previews not updating as noise function parameters were changed.
- Fixed drag highlight outline being shown on file areas even if the dragged file was not in a supported format.
- Adjustments and corrections to some parameter tool tips and node help texts.
- You can no longer (incorrectly) add animation tracks to math expression parameters.
version 3.0.8
posted on 2022-07-28
Changes and improvements:
- Nodes with a min-max value range (like the Apply Function node) now have a node menu option to quickly reverse the range.
- Value parameter pairs with aspect locked no longer break the aspect ratio if you change the values to zero and back.
- Fixes a bug in Change Pivot Node when calculating element group pivot points.
- Fixes a bug when calculating element group pivot when changing element offsets in an already offset group.
- Added warning and explanation if the Value Cap node is set to an invalid range of values.
version 3.0.6
posted on 2022-05-19
Changes and improvements:
- Added an Import Image menu item as an alternative method of adding import nodes via selecting a file.
- Fixes a crash when trying to apply a group pack node on a single element.
- Fixes a bug where deleting a node with connections between parameters in the node would leave loose connections behind.
- Fixes an issue where the locked aspect of recently imported image sizes would not be correct if the parameter was changed.
- Added node warning messages explaining Group Distribute and Group Pack nodes have no effect with a single element input.
- Fixes some formatting in the node reference and a bug showing parameter options in the help text that should be hidden.
version 3.0.2
posted on 2022-02-16
Fixes:
- Fixes incorrect size of exported SVG elements when exporting with a scaled export size.
- Fixed a crash using apply to Single mode in Change Replace node.
- Fixes an issue where exported GIF animations would sometimes get incorrect color palettes on macOS 11 and earlier.
- Optimization of value function graph UI updates.
version 3.0.0
posted on 2022-02-08
Main changes and new features
- Improved animation features. New keyframe-based Animation timeline and new Time Function node for animated noise and repeating functions.
- Improved drag editing. Improved support for selecting and editing node parameters by clicking and dragging in the preview.
- Redesigned interface. Cleaned up modern interface style with support for dark/light mode and animations.
- Improved performance. Rebuilt core components for faster generation and a more responsive interface.
- Redesigned dynamic index features. Clarified system for generating dynamic input to nodes.
Additional changes and improvements
- Improvements to placing of pasted in nodes when copying nodes between documents.
- Added menu item and keyboard shortcut command-0 to fit preview zoom.
- New Animation timeline panel with system for animating node properties using keyframes and a new timeline view.
- New Value Time Function node allowing animated complex noise and repeating value functions.
- Improved Repeat Radial node with a new angle offset parameter and 2D diameter size to enable ellipsis repetitions.
- Improved parameter pairs allowing variable aspect locks and value change and dynamic connections to either parameter.
- Improved built in node reference, now with dynamic demo node and description text.
- Improved parameter tooltips and node warnings.
- Improved copying and duplicating nodes in and between documents.
- Improved Group Apply Function with new reduced index range setting to make it easier to set exact edge transformations based on element index.
- Improved Artboard node layer management with new duplicate layer feature.
- Added alignment options to the Artboard node, for super easy centering of designs.
- Improved drag and drop support for importing graphics files.
- You can now hold shift to snap values to increments while using the hover controls slider to change parameter values.
- Change Transform and Repeat Transform node scale size mode toggle is repaced by separate scale and resize parameters.
- The Animation Info node now provides access to animation parameters, but no longer controls them.
- Animated Value nodes have been removed, and instead any node parameter can now be directly animated via the Animation timeline.
- Element Shape node Circle changed to Ellipse with separate height and width, with optional aspect lock.
- Change Color and Apply Graphics now have a color mix parameter to make it easy to gradually apply a color.
- The dynamic index functionality has been renamed 'Node index' to be more consistent and easy to understand.
- The old generic 'Group index' has been replaced with named node indexes for all applicable Change and Group nodes.
- Improved per document display settings controlling selection outlines and artboard repetition display.
- Improved Value Round node, with settings for rounding direction and number of decimals.
- Updated and replaced old components for future macOS compatibility.
- Per document auto-refresh setting, so you can disable it only for very heavy documents.
- You can now change zoom in full screen preview mode using command +/-.
- App sandbox for increased security.
- Updated to Sparkle 2.0 version checking and updating for increased security.
- You can now change zoom in full screen preview mode using command +/-.
Patternodes 3 requires macOS 10.14 or later.
version 2.4.12
posted on 2022-01-11
- Fixes undo and redo not working when the separate preview window was active.
- Fixes an issue with the Change Pivot node failing to correctly calculate pivot of groups that already have a modified pivot.
- Fixes an issue where offsetting some elements in an already rotated group of elements could offset the entire group.
version 2.4.12
posted on 2022-01-11
- Fixes undo and redo not working when the separate preview window was active.
- Fixes an issue with the Change Pivot node failing to correctly calculate pivot of groups that already have a modified pivot.
- Fixes an issue where offsetting some elements in an already rotated group of elements could offset the entire group.
Patternodes 3 is now in beta testing, find out more at lostminds.com/patternodes3.
version 2.4.11
posted on 2021-12-15
- Fixes an issue where the export save dialogue could become unresponsive when exporting a second time on macOS 12.1.
- Math expressions and all value fields now correctly evaluate asin() and acos() functions.
- Fixes an inconsistency in Group Apply Function node when using multiple periods of a non-continous function.
- Fixes a UI issue with the node reference table view columns on macOS 11 and later.
Patternodes 3 is now in beta testing, find out more at lostminds.com/patternodes3.
version 2.4.10
posted on 2021-09-07
This update is a hotfix of the 2.4.9 update that had some problems with the new group pivot point calculations and was therefore rolled back.
- Fixes a bug fram 2.4.8 that prevented adding new nodes by dragging and dropping a new connection.
- Fixed inner diameter parameter in Element Shape node arc pie wedge shapes.
- Fixed issues with loading older version files with pie wedge shapes.
- Some performance improvements.
version 2.4.6
posted on 2021-04-19
- Improved support for imported SVG and EPS of custom point shapes exported from Affinity software.
- Added support for even-odd fill mode in imported of custom point shapes.
- Better handling of problems when importing vector graphics from EPS/PDF/SVG files.
- Changes to make Color, Value and Element list nodes more consistent in appearance and function.
version 2.4.5
posted on 2021-03-23
- Improved Group Apply function graph to be more responsive during animations and better show period offsets.
- Improved Group Apply Function node, making it easier to apply exact multi-period functions.
- Added an input socket to the basic Value node.
- Repeater nodes now correctly show the Dynamic input settings when connected directly to Element list nodes.
- Fixed an issue with Group Randomize nodes sometimes not loading correctly when opening older files.
- Updated Sparkle version checking library.
- Updated Sample files library available from Help menu.
version 2.4.4
posted on 2021-02-23
- Fixed some stability issues drag-moving complex font character elements.
- Restored support for legacy macOS 10.11 (a bit experimental).
- Fixed incorrectly offset node preview of elements with offset pivot points.
- Fixed Repeat Random node not hiding/showing some parameter fields correctly when using artboard size and no minimum spacing.
- Apply Graphics node now has a random seed field when applyin to removal chance.
version 2.4.3
posted on 2021-02-11
- Improved preview updating frequency when rendering complex output and animation previews.
- Node value fields and formula fields now support the % modulus operator (ex: 10 % 4 will output 2).
- Node value fields and formula fields now support the round() function (ex: round(1.9) will output 2).
- Change nodes Selected Single apply to mode now loops around to restart at the first element if the offset is greater than the number or elements, consistent with other counted selections.
- Fixed Change Replace node not allowing Each or Selected apply modes even though the input is a group.
- More small interface adjustments on macOS 11.
- Updated a number of outdated tooltips and help texts.
version 2.4.1
posted on 2020-12-04
- Preview rendering scale fixes on retina screens.
- Changes to .pnds file format for improved future compatibility.
- Update to Finder quick look preview component for .pnds files.
version 2.4.0
posted on 2020-11-30
- Improved Random repeater node with new radial mode and option to set a minimum distance between repeated elements.
- Gradual removal. Apply Function and Apply Graphics nodes can now be used to apply a gradual removal chance to elements.
- Improved SVG exports with greatly reduced file-size using svg-symbols for images and embedding of imported SVG elements.
- Improved SVG path importing, with support for matrix() group transforms often used by Affinity Designer.
- Apple Silicon native support.
- Fixes a bug where the little pivot point markers would not show correctly in the Change Pivot node previews.
- Fixes a bug with some invalid connections not being removed after replacing nodes.
- Fixes a bug where replacing a change nodes with group nodes could lead to an invalid apply-to mode in the group node.
- Update to Sparkle updating library.
version 2.3.6
posted on 2020-10-26
- Apply Function and Apply Graphics now also have an Inside clipping option.
- Fixes a bug where Inside clipping transform option would sometimes be hidden, even if the input graphics was clipped.
- Fixes a bug where the Apply to mode selector would sometimes be incorrectly disabled in Group: Apply function nodes.
- Stability improvements for changing connected node types using the Replace node menu.
- More helpful feedback messages when entering incorrect license information.
version 2.3.3
posted on 2020-08-27
- Improved quality for exported h264 compressed video files.
- Some minor macOS 11 compatibility changes.
- Added a setting controlling if a new document should be opened at startup.
- Fixed some issues with exporting to filenames with spaces in them.
- Fixed Little Snitch internet access policy so it now properly describes the purpose of update and license check connections.
- Fixed incorrect error message when entering incorrect license details.
- Improved technical info and error logs for support and bug reports.
- Updated Sparkle updating framework.
version 2.3.2
posted on 2020-06-18
Changes and improvements
- Support for h.264 codec when exporting video.
- Last used export settings are now saved per file instead of globally.
- Fixes a bug that caused the first couple of frames to be skipped when an animation preview was started.
- Fixes offset in the preview of the Make Seamless node.
- Fixes some layout issues with the built in node reference.
- Optimized opening files.
- Better handling and error mesages in case of network errors when checking the license.
- Improved feedback when changing node parameters with Auto-Refresh turned off.
version 2.3.2
posted on 2020-06-18
- Support for h.264 codec when exporting video.
- Last used export settings are now saved per file instead of globally.
- Fixes a bug that caused the first couple of frames to be skipped when an animation preview was started.
- Fixes offset in the preview of the Make Seamless node.
- Fixes some layout issues with the built in node reference.
- Optimized opening files.
- Better handling and error mesages in case of network errors when checking the license.
- Improved feedback when changing node parameters with Auto-Refresh turned off.
version 2.3.1
posted on 2020-06-01
Changes and improvements
- Fixes flickering or lack of updates in the main preview in some situations.
- Fixes a bug where the selection markers wouldn't update properly after deleting multiple nodes.
- Fixes node previews not updating correctly when graphic input is removed or the node is disabled.
- Node element caching is now always on instead of being a performance option.
- Adds deprecation warnings shown when using some legacy node types, along with a new option to turn these warnings off.
- Improvements to the Feedback dialogue technical info logs
version 2.3.0
posted on 2020-04-30
Changes and improvements
- Greatly improved performance especially for working with animations and files with many elements.
- New Plateau Animated value function making it easier to make interesting animations where a value transitions between two constant levels.
- New Randomize Deep Change option in Group Randomize and Randomize Color nodes for applying individual changes to all sub elements without needing to flatten the group first.
- You can now rename Color nodes just like Value nodes.
- New setting for default new document size.
- New setting to include a set of default nodes or not in new documents.
- Improvements to editing values of linked node parameters.
- Connection context menu now shows total number of sub elements in multi-level groups.
Fixes
- Fixes fullscreen preview being incorrectly scaled on retina screens.
- Fixes a potential hang when importing some legacy Patternodes 1 files.
- Fixes long delay when closing files with a lot of pattern elements.
- Fixes importing legacy Patternodes 1 files Randomize and Randomize Color nodes.
- Improved performance importing legacy Patternodes 1 files.
- Fixes a bug where the bottom pattern preview view would be the wrong size after closing the separate preview panel.
- Fixes a bug where drag offset markers wouldn't be properly updated when opening or closing the separate preview panel.
- Fixes incorrect total update times in the render info panel.
version 2.2.91
posted on 2020-03-16
- This is a hotfix patch to the original 2.2.9 update, fixing a bug where newly created unconnected nodes would not be added correctly to the node graph.
version 2.2.9
posted on 2020-03-11
- Improved node reference
version 2.2.5
posted on 2019-09-09
- New group Pack and Distribute nodes.
version 2.2.4
posted on 2019-08-20
- New group explode nodes.
- Improved node warnings UI.
version 2.2.2
posted on 2019-05-22
-Quicker node creation. You can now add new nodes by simply draggin out a connection from any node socket and releasing.
-Repeater nodes dynamic offsets, (Repeat Transform, Grid and Radial) now work better with dynamic offset/scaling/rotation parameter values.
version 2.2.1
posted on 2019-04-12
-Improvements to adding and removing nodes on value or color connections.
-Improvements to connection preview (right-click connections) for graphics connections and color connections.
-You can now reuse the same random value by linking one parameter to a random value node, and then others to that parameter. A new sample file 'Reusing random values' showing this added.
-The Group Arrange node can now be applied to selected elements only and move these to the front or back of the group.
-In all change nodes apply to random selection now lets you offset this random selection.
-Re-structured and cleaned up the preferences panel, removing some old redundant settings.
-Updates to manual and sample files (Find them in the Help menu).
-Fixes a bug with the Align node align group elements left and top.
-Fixes a bug where math nodes converted from other value nodes would not work properly.
-Fixes a bug where automatic spacing calculations would not update automatically when the artboard size was changed by a connected value node.
-Fixes interface problems for macOS 10.14 users with dark mode.
version 1.8.4
posted on 2017-06-16
- Animation functionality and a lot of ather new nodes.
version 1.5.0
posted on 2015-03-04
- Multi-layer radial repetitions. Improvements to the Radial repeater node allowing you to add multiple layers with angle, count and radius offset per layer.
- Improved editing of offset and angle values. X/Y values (like offset or position) or rotation angle in selected nodes can now be edited.
