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# pixelfoo-viewer
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2023-04-16 19:55:51 +00:00
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[<img alt="codeberg" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/codeberg-poc/pixelfoo-viewer?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logo=codeberg" height="20">](https://github.com/starblue/lowdim)
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[](https://crates.io/crates/pixelfoo-viewer)
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> A viewer for pixelfoo frame streams.
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2023-04-16 19:18:55 +00:00
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## Background
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At Chaospott in Essen we have a large 80x40 array of Neopixel LEDs
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in the ceiling of our main room.
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A server can run various apps to generate animations on the LED array.
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## Apps
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Apps can be written in any programming language,
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they are started as child processes.
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They get the width and height as the first and second command line parameter,
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plus currently one additional free-to-use third parameter.
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Apps generate a stream of fixed format pixel data as their standard output.
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A pixel is either three bytes for red, green and blue (RGB),
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or four bytes with additionally white (RGBW).
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The number of pixels specified by the width make up a row,
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and the number of rows specified by the height make up a frame.
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Frames are sent consecutively, without any additional delimiters.
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The app controls the speed by the timing of the frame data it sends.
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## Viewer
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The viewer runs such apps locally and displays the animation in a window.
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This helps with app development.
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For example,
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```
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pixelfoo-viewer -w apps/backlight.py 80 40
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```
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runs the `backlight.py` app (assuming it exists) in RGBW mode
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with an 80x40 matrix.
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## License
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Licensed under either of
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- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
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- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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at your option.
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### Contribution
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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
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for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
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dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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