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jagiii • yesterday at 5:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

author here, good digging! I added the MIT license.

Getting 5-fold symmetry to work was tricky, but the repo you found has the processing sketch where I figured it out. I basically took the point generation process I described and rotated it upon itself 5 times. I tested this with different radial symmetry numbers actually, and 5 also happened to look the best and also was convenient for manufacturing the PCBs.

Then I had AI add the ability to rotate a bounding rectangle for one 'quintant' around the shape, and found the division of cells which minimized the area, since PCB cost scales with that.


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h-c-c • yesterday at 11:11 PM

Friend, if you can find one, get yourself a Fadecandy board. Maybe not that easy since it's technically discontinued. The dithering gives the smoothest / sexiest fading possible.