# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 ladyada for Adafruit Industries # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT #!/usr/bin/python3 # Persistence-of-vision (POV) example for Adafruit DotStar RGB LED strip. # Loads image, displays column-at-a-time on LEDs at very high speed, # suitable for naked-eye illusions. # See dotstar_simpletest.py for a much simpler example script. # See dotstar_image_paint.py for a slightly simpler light painting example. # This code accesses some elements of the dotstar object directly rather # than through function calls or setters/getters...this is poor form as it # could break easily with future library changes, but is the only way right # now to do the POV as quickly as possible. # May require installing separate libraries. import board from PIL import Image import adafruit_dotstar as dotstar NUMPIXELS = 30 # Length of DotStar strip FILENAME = "hello.png" # Image file to load ORDER = dotstar.BGR # Change to GBR for older DotStar strips # First two arguments in strip declaration identify the clock and data pins # (here we're using the hardware SPI pins). DOTS = dotstar.DotStar( board.SCK, board.MOSI, NUMPIXELS, auto_write=False, brightness=1.0, pixel_order=ORDER, ) # Load image in RGB format and get dimensions: print("Loading...") IMG = Image.open(FILENAME).convert("RGB") PIXELS = IMG.load() WIDTH = IMG.size[0] HEIGHT = IMG.size[1] print("%dx%d pixels" % IMG.size) if HEIGHT > NUMPIXELS: HEIGHT = NUMPIXELS # Calculate gamma correction table, makes mid-range colors look 'right': GAMMA = bytearray(256) brightness = 0.25 for i in range(256): GAMMA[i] = int(pow(float(i) / 255.0, 2.7) * brightness * 255.0 + 0.5) # Allocate list of lists, one for each column of image. print("Allocating...") COLUMN = [0 for x in range(WIDTH)] for x in range(WIDTH): COLUMN[x] = [[0, 0, 0, 0] for _ in range(HEIGHT)] # Convert entire RGB image into columnxrow 2D list. print("Converting...") for x in range(WIDTH): # For each column of image for y in range(HEIGHT): # For each pixel in column value = PIXELS[x, y] # Read RGB pixel in image COLUMN[x][y][0] = GAMMA[value[0]] # Gamma-corrected R COLUMN[x][y][1] = GAMMA[value[1]] # Gamma-corrected G COLUMN[x][y][2] = GAMMA[value[2]] # Gamma-corrected B COLUMN[x][y][3] = 1.0 # Brightness print("Displaying...") while True: # Loop forever for x in range(WIDTH): # For each column of image... DOTS[0 : DOTS.n] = COLUMN[x] # Copy column to DotStar buffer DOTS.show() # Send data to strip