From 7ab0fb426a3db94aef7b80b5b43ce12c327517a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:49:00 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Wax philosophical --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 67aa05a..9d17b0b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,11 +19,23 @@ form different ideas about what it's displaying. That's cool. -History -------- +Philosophy +---------- 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?" +