mucking around with the sin8 and basic maths to create an animation on the

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mucking around with the sin8 and basic maths to create an animation on the 8x8 matrix.
im more an artist then a mathematician so its always novel when i achieve what i was trying to do with functions.
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=ZZNE3FV7brs&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsHFMX1pRiTg%26feature%3Dshare

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Awesome, procedurally generated visuals are so amazing! Its incredible what a few modifications to a few bytes can do

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yeah, half the fun is trying stuff to see what it does.

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Right on. Now I’m craving more.

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You have a link to your code? I’m interested!

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@Adam_Wright here you go.
http://pastebin.com/t0Y4VGFt

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Looks great, and thanks for sharing the code!

Anybody know if it’d run any faster if you called sin8(x) and cos8(x) once instead of repeatedly like that? Or is that something the compiler will optimize automatically?

Also, just curious, why have the second call to FastLED.show() after clearing? Won’t that make them flash?

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thanks Jason, no idea if it will run faster, the leds move slowly because of the values coming from sin8, so going x=x+2; will make the animation faster.
the second fastled show clears the screen after drawing the pixels or it ends up just filling the screen with color.(or at least i think it did, thats why i remember adding it)
EDIT- changed the code to remove the second led show and it still works. cool thanks for the idea @Jason_Coon