Next test. Color cycle big is fixed, smearing bug is fixed. This looks good now.
My family prefers the colorwave pictures I made by accident over my POV stuff.
(Picture shows the bridge to #Usedom in #Wolgast, Baltic Sea, Germany).
Hi Paul - I like the lettering - did you use adafruit’s library for the text functions or write your own? I wrote one years ago that works in conjunction with the LPD8806 library and not looking forward to updating it to work with FastLED!
Paul? 
Well, almost all of these fonts you find around the net work the same: they are a bit pattern of pixel set/unset per column of a character (going from top to low). Who ever worked on (Fast-) LED matrix displays and wanted to show text knows these fonts and how to handle them. I’m sure, Adafruit does the same, the algorithm is not complicated at all!
And this font-algorithm makes POV-texts very very easy, as you need to draw your characters one column after the other.
(Keep in mind, that there are fonts, that work per row, not column. So take care!)
P.S.: sure, there are lots of fonts out there. But we need a special version. You find them, when you ask aunt google for “Graphic LCD Font”, it’s human readable. f.e.: https://code.google.com/p/glcd-arduino/source/browse/trunk/glcd/fonts/SystemFont5x7.h
Thanks for the hints Thomas, not sure why I called you Paul!? I’ve download the font library you sent the link to - I’ll wrap my head around it today!
You don’t need that. It’s much simpler. If you want I’ll post my code. You will be surprised, how easy that POV and font stuff is. 
That’d be great - if could send to christhodey@gmail.com?
Hi @Thomas_Runge , actually if you can post that code on pastebin… I would also like to have a look at it !
Sure thing - I’ll paste it in when i get home