hey it worked!

here we have the three indexes, and we are drawing directly to pattern by looking up colors with those in

I think this function is the key item to play with.

And we can draw colors from the palettes that we have already defined.

that way, we can have full brightness colors defined, and use dynamic brightness setting in the show function.

instead, for now, let’s just try to make an in place replacement of the color set

but I don’t want to get sidetracked trying to fix the novice code I wrote seven years ago while in a fugue state

This is very silly

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when we have gone through a single cycle of frames, we increase a count of the number of times we have run the full idle animation

for example, drawing is bounded by a conditional that seems to govern the speed of drawing animation frames

there are many other details

the strip copy function then copies that to the LEDs

a function called UpdatePattern() uses those indexes to copy CRGB colors from the color sets to pattern

each frame, the number value for each pixel gets updated by its own function

That integer is an index into a very small color palette with 8 entries

Each pixel in the draw buffer is represented by an integer, called pixelA and so on

copies colors to a set of three pixels in a draw buffer named pattern

places colors into an array of arrays which will then be used by the update idle function

createColorSets()

there are two functions to be improved

The interim goal is to make it so that the colors being grabbed are better

“try to keep the details out of the diagram if possible. The goal is to break the system down from a complete thing into bite-sized chunks you can summarize enough to fit in a box.

“What is each external chip used for? This is simple when each has only one function. For example, if our flash is used to store bitmaps to put on a screen, we can put a box on the architecture to represent the display assets. This doesn’t have an off-chip element, so its box goes in the processor.”