This is pretty much a direct port of Heroic Robotics' PixelPusher-java library.
This library was built and tested for iOS. In theory this library should work with OS X as well, though I've never tested it there.
- CFNetwork.framework
- QuartzCore.framework
- Security.framework
- using GCD and mostly on the main queue (thread) instead of using threads directly. packet dispatch uses non-main queue. i'm waiting to see when/where performance suffers to introduce non-main/concurrent queues.
- Pixel struct is float R,G,B instead of byte
- no 5-axis RGBOW pixel support (don't know what devices do this)
- PPPixelPusher defers allocation of strips so parsing status packets in PPDeviceRegistry uses less memory
- DeviceRegistry uses 3 different notifications (add, remove, update) instead of just 1 (something changed, you figure out what)
- pixel values passed through inv log LUT to better map to LEDs' log output brightness
- instrumentation (bandwidth)
- use C-arrays instead of NSArray (measure perf diff)
- use non-main queues
- use actual pixmap for strip backing buffers
- allow strips to use external back buffer (map all strips into one single pixmap, use OS drawing routines)