I've noted a number of applications folks have developed to easily acquire values for

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I’ve noted a number of applications folks have developed to easily acquire values for the rendering arrays.
Has anyone developed a simulator/emulator that can be used to develop code w/o the phy hardware?

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This looks promising … https://123d.circuits.io/lab/

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Can you give some details on what you’d like to be able to do?

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Basically load / debug Adruino code independent of platform type and visualize WS2812 led actions …
Doesn’t need to be time accurate …

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It’s certainly not that difficult to emulate an 8 bit processor like the AVR. But emulating the PINs and busses and all the sensors and other external devices is a lot of work for little gain.

Often all you need on FastLED releated projects is a way to test and work on algorithms. You could have a look at http://processing.org and make yourself some kind of test environment.

I made something like that with my (our? :->) Fibonacci display: https://plus.google.com/101332413535253547436/posts/ckSzcBQtJ61

Feel free to reuse as much as possible!

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It’s certainly not that difficult to emulate an 8 bit processor like the AVR. But emulating the PINs and busses and all the sensors and other external devices is a lot of work for little gain.

Often all you need on FastLED releated projects is a way to test and work on algorithms. You could have a look at http://processing.org and make yourself some kind of test environment.

I made something like that with my (our? :->) Fibonacci display: https://plus.google.com/101332413535253547436/posts/ckSzcBQtJ61

Feel free to reuse as much as possible!