Meeting Notes (2020 06 02)

Brainstorming

• An animation could start as a seed which has a motion vector and color vector.
• Pixel-based animations could use keyframes and tweening.
• Does chameleon in its current state help us with pixel blending?
• Animation vs Effect - Should frame-based animations be a different system than the math-based animations?
• Should an animation have a black box state field that it can store state in that nothing else can access?
• Animations as a black box in general?
  • The overall consensus seems to be yes, conceptually.
  • Implementation: Should an animation be a GenServer?
    • Pro: It could be a completely isolated component that can store its own internal state and emits messages (frames) to be rendered.
    • Con: Emitting messages introduces concurrency between an animation and the renderer and leaves the frames to the mercy of the scheduler (unpredictable timing -- and ordering if we support multiple animations running at once).

Action Items

• Spike some of the ideas from today's call.

Resources

• QMK animation implementation
• QMK effect runners