Happy New Year Everyone! Pre-Announce: SmartMatrix::GFX https://github.com/marcmerlin/SmartMatrix_GFX/blob/master/README.md and https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos Demo:

Happy New Year Everyone!

Pre-Announce: SmartMatrix::GFX SmartMatrix_GFX/README.md at master · marcmerlin/SmartMatrix_GFX · GitHub
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GitHub - marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos: Various Arduino 2D demos that work all hardware backends supported by FrameBuffer::GFX

Demo: SmartMatrix::GFX on 64x64 with Teensy 3.6 and ESP32 - YouTube

Given the time I spent porting demos to Adafruit GFX and/or FastLED (via FastLED::NeoMatrix), and that I needed to use some smaller higher res panels, which sadly can only be had as RGB Panels, I looked around at options.
There are 3 drivers for RGB Panels (one native for ESP32 with DMA and with GFX support, but sadly it’s limited to 64x32 only). The README above explains in more details but the winner is of course @Louis_Beaudoin SmartMatrix, so I wrote a GFX + FastLED compat layer for it (the FastLED compat allows running code that applies CRGB methods against the CRGB LED array without changing a line of code).

In turn, this allowed all my demos to be ported easily (which as a reminder is code I didn’t write for the most part), and it’s now all working on SmartMatrix too (I still need to port FastLED::GFX demos over like @Mark_Estes ’ demos but that should be easy)
As full circle irony, @Jason_Coon 's Aurora demos were ported back to SmartMatrix which is where they came from :slight_smile:

I’ll post updates when I have more, but the code is already usable as is, see the link above. You can go in config.h and switch between SmartMatrix and Neomatrix with a single #define.

Demo: https://youtu.be/FjBL09Qceqs

Matrix demo on 2 different 64x64 panels
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