So I’m looking for some interesting animations for a 16-LED ws2811-based strip. I’d like a fake “Vu-Meter” animation, and I would also love to use this water droplet routine: https://github.com/DannyHavenith/ws2811/blob/master/src/water_torture.hpp
Any suggestions? Ideally, they would be separated functions, similar to the funkboxing LED FX examples.
So the past two years I’ve hung several strips in a window during the holiday season. I’ve changed the patterns displayed, as well as the hardware both years and I will likely do that again this year (since I want to do some texture mapping across several strings this year.) But, you can see what it looked like in 2011 here:
Youtube link: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ex1k8f_Nk <
and in 2012 here:
Youtube link: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkuTA6Jexo <
I wrote some animation I call Glam. It fades every LED seperatly and randomly in and out. I’ll Atach the code so you can play around with it. It is written for an oddly wired ws2811 strip, thus the RGB values are changed to GRB.
Hey @Patrik_Nefuek , have you noticed that your code will eventually stop cycling through colors and remain red after it’s been running for a couple of days?
i guess thats due to the variable being out of ‘bounds’ an if Statement would do. but i haven’t noticed that thought, thank you! How have you runned this for days? you like it that much 
As an endurance test. I do that with several of my projects, plug them in and let them run nonstop for days. Yours fails after about two and a half days. It simply stops cycling.
The other issue also is that on startup the entire string comes on before it starts fading individual pixels. When you have a large installation, that is an unnecessary current draw when it starts up.
at least, thats something 
@Patrik_Nefuek just wanted to say thanks for posting this code, it’s a great starting point for something i was trying to accomplish.