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Originally Posted by wolftail
Dithermatron 1.1 was very fast but from one point it appeared that it was a bit too fast for the screen to keep up.
The cosmegg one was trippy.
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Actually, it increases speed while running, and it starts drawing more and more between screen updates, but it does not increase the delay between updates, so at some point the eink drivers cannot keep up and it gets "glitchy". I have another version that I did not post that runs it all at a nice speed (what you would see after the top or bottom of the screen get bumped 10 times. Faster than that and the display updates fall back into "deferred update" mode (which looks rather ugly). I like to
run these demos from SSH while in screensaver mode (framework sleeping). Less competition for resources that way and it works nicely for me. Or run it from diags...
You can slow it down by using a different K4DLY selection and recompiling. Cosmegg accepts a command line parameter for msec between display updates. You can change it to 250 for 4 updates/second (
./cosmeg 250).
EXPERIMENT: Run multiple "dithermatron &" in the background to see MORE objects. 
