Patterns
Patterns control the timing and appearance of blinks on an LED. When a pattern is used with a colorset, each blink of the pattern sequentially displays the next color in the colorset.
Simple Pattern Usage
The basic way to use a pattern is to simply choose one via the Pattern Select Menu. With this appraoch nothing else needs to be known about patterns.
However, if you want to learn how patterns truly work or learn more about each pattern then continue reading.
Pattern Types
All patterns are classified into a type and family, there are only two families of patterns:
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A Multi-LED Pattern plays on all LEDs, creating coordinated effects that travel across LEDs.
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A Single-LED Pattern plays on an individual LED and does not travel.
Within each family there are a variety of types of patterns. Examples of types of single-led patterns include: blend, or strobe.
All patterns have parameters, numeric values that control their appearance, such as duration of blinks or gaps. Each type of pattern may offer slightly different parameters to control.
The Pattern Select Menu offers a curated list of patterns to choose from, these are various types of patterns that have their parameters tuned to specific values.
Two completely different looking patterns in the Pattern Select Menu may actually be the same type of pattern with slightly different paremeters.
Multi Led Patterns
To learn more about Multi-Led Patterns see the Multi-LED Patterns page.
Note: The Duo does not support Multi-LED patterns.
Single Led Patterns
To learn more about Single-Led Patterns see the Single-LED Patterns page.