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Re:Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display by jagiii on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:53PM (#49897520)
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.

Re:Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display by h-c-c on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:11PM (#49902110)
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.
Re:Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display by Already__Taken on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:53PM (#49903819)
if you can manufacture the board on both sides you can probably alternate top/bottom and panel rows with no waste in a straight line.