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by sswezey 3756 days ago
I saw that Symmetry Labs did the Generate music video! I honestly thought that was CGI! Do you have any tips of getting started with the type of LED display work you do, with regards to the control software?
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I would check out these 2 libraries:

Fadecandy by Micah Scott: https://github.com/scanlime/fadecandy

LX and P3LX by Mark Slee: https://github.com/heronarts/LX

They both provide good starting points to working with LEDs arranged in arbitrary 2D and 3D configurations.

You can also check out the code for 2 different LED art projects I've worked on, both built on top of LX.

Tabula - https://github.com/squaredproject/Tabula LED fins on the side of a building in Palo Alto, visualizing earthquake data. Construction starts later this year

2Squared - https://github.com/squaredproject/2squared 50-ft LED trees created in 2014 for Burning Man and Coachella

Awesome, thanks!