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title: "Decompose Container"
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description: "This page documents the Decompose Container node of the Scene Nodes system in Cinema 4D. It splits containers — bundles of arrays and values, like a …"
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# Decompose Container

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page documents the **Decompose Container node** of the Scene Nodes system in **Cinema 4D**. It splits containers — bundles of arrays and values, like a mesh's point and polygon data — into their individual parts.

A container can be thought of as a collection of arrays and values that can have different data types. Such collections occur whenever different values are passed in a package. For example, imagine any polygon object. This usually consists of a collection of point coordinates, polygons, a matrix and still other properties, such as a name, visibility attributes, UV coordinates, selections, material assignments, etc., which can be collected in a container.

The data container also allows targeted access to the desired properties.

Within the Node environment, this Node can be used, for example, to read out the arrays contained in a distribution.

![Image: 046096.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/046096.jpg)\
Here the container of a linear distribution is broken down to calculate a new color distribution.

[![Image: halvar.png](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/halvar.png)](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Scenes/046095.c4d)