# Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Nodes

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Blender's *Node Editor* lets you assemble various processing blocks
(*nodes*) into combinations which feed data to one another along
connections that you specify to produce complex effects. These effects
can be used in three different ways: as textures, as materials, or for
compositing. The Node Editor makes different kinds of processing blocks
available, depending on which of the three kinds of effects you are
producing:

-   Texture nodes
-   Material nodes
-   Compositing nodes
