BetterLightStrips 1.2.3

The following changes to the engine have been made:

• The Gradient class now has a constructor to deep copy from another gradient.
• Gradients can now also sharply switch between colors, rather than always smoothly interpolating between them. Use .sharp().
• #6: Transition logs now have the option to be condensed into a single line rather than two. Use config.withMergedTransitionLogs().

The following light wrappers have been added/changed:

• BreathingLightWrapper: A unary light wrapper for LEDPattern.breathe(). This wrapper will smoothly pulse its pattern over a given time.
• OverlayLightWrapper: A binary light wrapper for LEDPattern.overlayOn(). This wrapper applies a pattern directly on top of another pattern.
  • Similarly to .mask(), the implementation of LightPattern.overlayOn() differs quite significantly from its base implementation. I believe the original implementation was quite flawed, and I believe this one is an improvement. Overall, the two wrappers have fairly similar behavior.
• Changed ScrollLightWrapper: Scrolling now will interpolate between pixels at the corners of the patterns, making the overall affect much smoother. It can be disabled with .sharp().

The following light patterns have been added/changed:

• Changed RandomLightPattern: This pattern now has the ability to randomize along a true gradient, rather than simply two colors.
• ProgressBarLightPattern: A powerful pattern that takes a DoubleSupplier to animate a progress bar from left-to-right. Both the active and inactive sections of the bar can be either single colors or entire gradients, and this class can be inherited from.

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• In addition, some methods regarding interpolation in a variety of patterns have been renamed to .sharp() and .smooth() to create a standard convention across the library. Because nobody is using the library at this time, I've opted to make this a breaking change.

Breaking Changes

From 1.2.2: To standardize the naming convention of interpolation in this library, several existing methods have had their names changed to .sharp() and .smooth(). This includes the following:

• BounceLightPattern
  • .withFade() -> .smooth()
  • .withSharp() -> .sharp()
• RandomLightPattern
  • .withSmoothInterpolation() -> .smooth()
  • .withRoughInterpolation() -> .sharp()
    I hope this makes sense. In the future I may do deprecations, but nobody is using the library right now so I have no reason to.

From 1.2.1: Project files moved to root

From 1.1: Suppliers are used in .withStateAll() and .withTransitionAll()

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To install:

• Download the source code from this release, extract it, and place the betterlights directory into your src/java/main folder.
• Alternatively, you could clone this project directly into your robot code with git submodule add https://github.com/That-One-Nerd/betterlights.git run in your src/main/java directory.