A while ago I made a little Vectorstyler tutorial on how
to create patterns with letters.

In the meanwhile I did the same in Nodebox. Thought it
might be interesting to see the different approaches.

Note:
Export your Nodebox result as a .PDF to preserve the
colors and especially the transparency of your pattern.
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Here is the video of how I did it in VectorStyler.
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Here is the video of how to do it in Nodebox.

Its also possible to create simple Animations
with Nodebox, I use this option in the video too.
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Nodebox also offers a simple animation feature, but you
can still have fun with it
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Here the Animation i made
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This Picture below here shows how i made this in Nodebox, it is a more basic version which still works.
To find that Nodes in Nodebox click on "New Node" on Top of that Panel there is a search Function.

Will post a Video where i explain a few things and little more advanced Node Tree but it will take yet a little while.
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Here a Video how the Basic Node Tree works
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To use this Tree below:
Click on the "Import_svg3" Node and choose a SVG File
which containes multiple copies of one Object.
You could create one in VS with the Repeater and export it as a SVG File.
The "Textpath2" Node replace this Object with a Word then.
To render this all double click (left Mouse Button) the "fit_to2" Node.
Then you can export your Result as a SVG from Nodebox.
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Here the Node Tree, basic Version

You're welcome, as I wrote, the Nodebox forum is a great help.

John from the forum support team, a really friendly guy who often
offers ready-made Nodebox files to download when problems arise.
Which you can then study. That's why it's worth searching the NB
forum if you have problems.

For your purposes, I would also recommend that you take a look at the
Node command set in “Nodebox” Live, perhaps there is more there for you.