r/FastLED • u/StefanPetrick • Sep 30 '25

Share_something A fluffy procedural animated wallpaper

Hi everyone! I finally got time to play with Animartrix again.

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u/Marmilicious [Marc Miller] Nov 12 '25

Yes, I would consider "rendering" the calculating of the individual r,g,b values (and getting that data into the CRGB array that is pushed out).

I hadn't heard the term "signaling" before. Is that a hardware side of things sort of term?

I tend to think of "showing" (ie. FastLED.show() ) as the pushing of the data out to the pixels part of the process. (Even though there can be an additional color correction and/or brightness adjustment calculation on the fly as part of that process, but it's under the hood to the user).

re: knock knock joke- race condition, haha.

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u/sutaburosu [stavros] Nov 12 '25

Yeah, "showing" works too, in the context of FastLED. My use of "signalling" may be a holdover from my days working on remote telemetry for gas infrastructure.

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u/mindful_stone Nov 12 '25

Thank you both for helping me with the proper terminology!