# Define a rainbow of colors:
colors = [ (255, 0, 0), # Red color (components are red, green, blue)
(255, 128, 0), # Orange
(255, 255, 0), # Yellow
( 0, 255, 0), # Green
( 0, 0, 255), # Blue
( 75, 0, 130), # Indigo
(143, 0, 255) ] # Violet
# Adjust the brightness of all the pixels by calling set_pixel_brightness.
# Send a value from 0 - 100 which means dark to full bright.
# Note that if you go down to 0 brightness you won't be able to go back up
# to higher brightness because the color information is 'lost'. It's best to
# just call set brightness once at the start to set a good max brightness instead
# of trying to make animations with it.
board.set_pixel_brightness(50)
# Animate moving the colors across the pixels 100 times / 10 seconds.
print('Animating pixels for 10 seconds...')
for offset in range(100):
# Go through each pixel and set its color based on its position and the
# current offset. Constrain these values to fall within the list of colors.
for i in range(10):
# Find the color for this pixel.
color = colors[(i+offset)%len(colors)]
# Set the pixel color.
board.set_pixel(i, color[0], color[1], color[2])
# Push the updated colors out to the pixels (this will make the pixels change
# their color, the previous set_pixel calls just change the memory and not
# the pixels).
board.show_pixels()
(255, 0, 0), # Red color (components are red, green, blue)
(255, 128, 0), # Orange
(255, 255, 0), # Yellow
(0, 255, 0), # Green
(0, 0, 255), # Blue
(75, 0, 130), # Indigo
(143, 0, 255)
] # Violet
# Adjust the brightness of all the pixels by calling set_pixel_brightness.
# Send a value from 0 - 100 which means dark to full bright.
# Note that if you go down to 0 brightness you won't be able to go back up
# to higher brightness because the color information is 'lost'. It's best to
# just call set brightness once at the start to set a good max brightness instead
# of trying to make animations with it.
board.set_pixel_brightness(50)
# Animate moving the colors across the pixels 100 times / 10 seconds.
start_frame_time = time.time()
print('Animating pixels for 10 seconds...')
for offset in range(10000):
# Go through each pixel and set its color based on its position and the
# current offset. Constrain these values to fall within the list of colors.
for i in range(12):
# Find the color for this pixel.
color = colors[(i + offset) % len(colors)]
# Set the pixel color.
board.set_pixel(i, (offset - 0) % 255, (offset - 50) % 255,
(offset - 100) % 255)
# board.show_pixels()
