More tuning of the programming, much smoother sliding going on,

More tuning of the programming, much smoother sliding going on, a bit more color/pattern mixing as well. This is useful, though - it is giving me a lot more information on how to make led windows that slide fractionally around (with an eventual goal of keeping led pattern code itself as simple as possible). I kind of like the idea of pattern code not having to worry about things like fractional pixels while still being able to slide things around much more smoothly.

The videos are still blowing out/blurring a bit more than I’d like, I’ll work on figuring out better ways to light/record in the future. Not tonight, though.

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More playing around with the led programming…

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so this is on a grid display? i was thinkin you had it coiled up under a diffuser

I don’t think its a grid/matrix

Not a grid :slight_smile:

The Northern Lights in a box. It’s ready for a Santa’s workshop display.
Is it sound reactive or was that just some background music?

I’ll never tell! :slight_smile:

Hrm, this just gave me an idea - as if I don’t already have enough unfinished projects … Hey @Daniel_Garcia , when would you release this code? :slight_smile:

Probably a while - the code in this project is my playground for the next level of library above this one (pattern/task/oscillator management, led mapping/windowing, patterns themselves) – This has 12 instances of the same pattern in 12 separate sliding windows (which move in units of 1/128’th of a pixel), and a total of ~70 oscillators controlling thing like position/width of the windows, color, brightness, and everything is blended together.

Hrm … mkay. I’ll come up with something after I sit on this idea and plan it out for a bit. First, I need to order a piece of plexi!

Real awesome,
Can’t you gives us a little tip how the hardware is done? :wink:

Coiled led strips underneath a diffuser (in this case, a sheet of styrofoam)