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 That's cool.
 
 
-History
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+Philosophy
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 I was trying to make pixels fade in and out,
 and got the math wrong.
 But what I wound up with looked more interesting
 than what I was trying to make,
 so I kept it.
+
+After many trips to Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return,
+I realized that the presentation of the piece
+is more important
+than how complicated the algorithm is.
+
+It's hard to encapsulate in a git repository,
+but if you want to make NeoPixel art,
+think hard about what the end result should look like.
+It's not enough to make a cool light show;
+it has to make people wonder "what is that for?"
+