Here is a nice interface to build led strip animations: http://flickerstrip.com/
Do you know alternatives? I’d really like something like that to program patterns for my ESP8266-connected led strip.
http://flickerstrip.com
I wrote PatternPaint for the BlinkyTape (which also lets you control pixels individually
):
http://blinkinlabs.com/blinkytape/patternpaint/
It’s open source and supports exporting animations to a header file for Arduino.