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WalkthroughAdds the 2D Snakes effect. It moves snakes across a matrix, tracks tail lifetimes, and supports optional brightness interpolation. The effect is registered in the 2D effect list. Changes2D Snakes Effect
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EffectRegistry
participant mode_2DSnakes
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EffectRegistry->>mode_2DSnakes: invoke registered effect
mode_2DSnakes->>Segment: read speed and effect settings
mode_2DSnakes->>mode_2DSnakes: update snake positions and cell lifetimes
mode_2DSnakes->>Matrix: render snake heads and tails
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- Around line 8119-8121: Update the Snakes effect’s state tracking so its reset
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looks good in general, code needs some cleanup, I assume this is AI coded given there are some weird choices? |
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@DedeHai It's not AI code, I guess the weird choices are because I am not very experienced with the codebase. So thanks for the pointers! |
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- Line 8205: In the rendering loop, after skipping cells with zero lifetime and
before the cell.lifetime == snakeLength head check, clamp lifetimes above
snakeLength to snakeLength and clear those cells with SEGMENT.setPixelColorXY.
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why? if you already detect the head here, all you need to do is calculate the brightness here and you can remove the loop below right?
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Yes, true. Now it stores the snake index in the cell and uses that to render it in one loop.
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nice, looks good now. just a few nitpicks:
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@DedeHai Great! I've fixed the comments |
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This PR adds a new 2D effect called "Snakes".
Showcase
The effect displays several "Snakes" (like the classic game) that walk randomly around the screen while avoiding collisions with each other. It has parameters for speed, snake length, the number of snakes and a "smooth" parameter that makes snakes interpolate between steps rather than "jump" to the next position.
These demos run on a 64x64 HUB75 display using a Waveshare ESP32-S3-RGB-Matrix board.
Here it is running at low speed with
Smooth=false:And at high speed with
Smooth=true:Implementation
Every turn, each snake tries to move to an unoccupied square next to it. It has a random chance to prefer turning over going straight. It's not very clever and means snakes can get "stuck" temporarily, but that doesn't look too bad to me (you can see it in the fast video above).
The effect uses a
W*H*2matrix to track which spaces are occupied (and by what). This gives very fast collision detection, but is not the most memory-efficient algorithm. It still seems reasonable considering there are 2D effects that allocate 3 or 4 bytes per pixel. It also allocates arrays for keeping track of each snake's head (position, direction etc.) and for memoizing colors calculated from the palette, but that should be negligible in comparison.Let me know if you'd prefer I just add this as a usermod instead.
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