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Wall Art
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This an art piece I have
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hanging in the wall of my house, with
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pixels crammed into a cardboard box.
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It doesn't display anything significant.
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The idea is to have something to look at if you're idle,
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without it being a distraction from more pressing issues.
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If you're familiar with the album "music for airports",
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it's that.
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Most people, after watching it for a bit,
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form different ideas about what it's displaying.
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That's cool.
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Philosophy
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I was trying to make pixels fade in and out,
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and got the math wrong.
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But what I wound up with looked more interesting
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than what I was trying to make,
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so I kept it.
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After many trips to Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return,
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I realized that the presentation of the piece
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is more important
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than how complicated the algorithm is.
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It's hard to encapsulate in a git repository,
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but if you want to make NeoPixel art,
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think hard about what the end result should look like.
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It's not enough to make a cool light show;
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it has to make people wonder "what is that for?"
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