Attributions

The people, projects and published algorithms whose work shaped MoonLight. We study their thinking with respect and write our own code against our architecture. A module's @attribution names an entry by any of its names, a person and their company or handle written as one entry, and the module's help links it there. A picture is a Wikimedia Commons file, named after the link as File:<name>, and an entry linking GitHub shows its avatar. A name not listed yet is still allowed: it shows as written until it is added here. The modules that name an entry are read from their headers when the site is built. Any other source file's @attribution line counts too, so code that is no module credits where its idea lives. The deck filters by kind: 🧑 a person, 🏢 a company or shop, 🧰 a project or library, 📜 a standard or protocol, 🧮 an algorithm, 🎨 an art form or culture.

Name	Kind	Known for	Attributed by
4wheeljive	🧑	Jeff Holman: flow fields, from a Petrick concept.	ColorTrails, Trails
Adafruit	🏢	The LCD_CAM discovery behind the S3 driver.	Hub75, I80Peripheral.h, ParallelSlots.h
After Dark	🎨	Berkeley Systems' screensavers, the Flying Toasters and the aquarium among them.	FishTank, FlyingToasters
Aircoookie	🧑	Christian Schwinne, creator of WLED.	Tetrix
Andrew Tuline / atuline	🧑	The WLED-SR audio-reactive effects.	AudioSpectrum, Blurz, BouncingBalls, FreqMatrix, GEQ, Lissajous, NoiseMeter, Tetrix
Art-Net	📜	The lighting-network protocol for DMX over IP.	NetworkReceive, NetworkSend
Bill Reeves / Particle system	🧑🧮	Particle systems, as a technique.	Fireworks, Particles, particles.h
blazoncek	🧑	Blaž Kristan: WLED effects, and their ports.	DistortionWaves, Tetrix
Boustrophedon	🧮	Alternate lines running in reverse, the serpentine wiring of a snaked strip.	Cube, Grid, GridBlacks, Panel, Panels
Brandon502 / WildCats08	🧑	Modifiers, particles, and Game of Life.	Checkerboard, GameOfLife, Particles, Pinwheel, Rotate, RubiksCube, StarField
Breakout	🎨	Atari's 1976 arcade game.	Breakout
Bresenham	🧮	Lines and circles on integer grids.	draw.h
Chebyshev distance	🧮	The grid metric max(|dx|, |dy|).	Block
Christophe Gagnier / Moustachauve	🧑	Author of the native WLED-Android and WLED-iOS apps, whose source let MoonLight devices appear in them.	HttpServer, WledPacket.h
Conical spiral	🧮	A spiral wound up the surface of a cone.	Spiral
Damian Schneider / DedeHai	🧑	Author of the WLED Particle System, whose shape our particle kernel follows in fixed point.	Ballpit, Fireworks, particles.h
Daniel Shiffman / Coding Train / Nature of Code	🧑	The Coding Train's starfield, and The Nature of Code's cellular automata.	GameOfLife, StarField
David Jupijn / Rising Step	🧑	The contributor the 🦅 tag credits on the effects he shaped.	Fire, LavaLamp, Metaballs, Particles, Plasma, Rings, Ripples, Spiral
DDP	📜	The Distributed Display Protocol, pixel data over UDP.	NetworkReceive, NetworkSend
Delphium	🧑	HUB75, OSC, HLS, RTSP, NDI, and Windows.	Hls, Hub75, Ndi, Rtsp
Demoscene	🎨	The real-time art scene of the home-computer era, its water, vector balls and plasma among the tricks.	VectorBalls
DougHaber	🧑	Doug Haber: nlife-color, Conway's Game of Life with color.	GameOfLife
E1.31 / sACN	📜	Streaming ACN, DMX over IP as ANSI standardizes it.	NetworkReceive, NetworkSend
Eric Marciniak	🧑	The car-lights fixture.	CarLights
ESPHome	🧰	Home Assistant discovery, and HUB75.	Hub75, Hub75Slots.h
Euclidean distance	🧮	The straight-line metric.	Circle
ewowi	🧑	MoonLight, StarLight, WLED 2D, LED preview.	GameOfLife
FastLED	🧰	The canonical LED-effects library whose names and models MoonLight carries forward (scale8, sin8, the gradient-palette model, the beatsin8 family) so a contributor recognizes them on sight. The implementations are our own, integer-only and hot-path-tuned. Color maths and the basic power functions.	DemoReel, Plasma, RmtLed, I80Peripheral.h, ParallelSlots.h, ParlioPeripheral.h, math8.h
FFmpeg	🧰	The open video toolkit the desktop HLS and RTSP drivers encode through.	Hls
Fisher-Yates shuffle	🧮	A uniform random permutation in one pass.	RandomMap
FPP / Falcon Player	🧰	The show player that prompted PanelCardDriver: if a Linux host can feed a wall of HUB75 panels, so can the board already rendering them. Its receiving-card protocols, and its FSEQ format is what a show file is.	FseqPlayer, PanelCard
Frank / softhack007	🧑	Main author of the WLED-MM audio-reactive usermod. The ideas behind AudioService, including the adaptive noise gate analyzed with his permission, descend from years of collaboration, as do the AI principles and the care for code quality.	Audio, Blurz, GEQ
GLSL	📜	The OpenGL shading language, whose built-in function names the shader kernel keeps.	shader.h
Gomez	🧑	The demoscene water effect, 2000.	BeatRipples
Harald Kubota	🧑	An independent write-up of the ColorLight 5A-75B wire format.	PanelCard
HLS	📜	HTTP Live Streaming, RFC 8216: video as a playlist of short segments.	Hls
Hugo Elias	🧑	The water surface algorithm.	WaterRipple
hzeller	🧑	Henner Zeller: the HUB75 lineage on the Pi.	Hub75, Hub75Slots.h
IEC 60268-17	📜	VU meter ballistics, to the millisecond.	Spectrum, VuMeters
Improv Wi-Fi	📜	The open serial provisioning standard the web installer uses.	ImprovProvisioning
Iñigo Quilez	🧑	Distance functions and their operators, smooth minimum, cosine palettes.	PolarNoise, Raymarch, SdfShapes, Tunnel, raymarch.h, shader.h
John Hart / Sphere tracing	🧑🧮	Sphere tracing, the basis of raymarching.	Raymarch, raymarch.h
Jos Stam / Stable Fluids	🧑🧮	Stable Fluids, the solver behind the fluid effect.	Fluid, Trails
Ken Perlin / Perlin noise	🧑🧮	Gradient noise, the field behind fire and clouds.	NoiseMeter
ldirko	🧑	The Distortion Waves effect.	DistortionWaves
Limpkin	🧑	The SE16 and LightCrafter boards, RGBW tuning.	FixedRectangle, SingleColumn, SingleRow, StarSky
Mark Kriegsman	🧑	FastLED's Fire2012, DemoReel100, noise field and rainbow.	DemoReel, Fire, Noise, Rainbow, math8.h
Meshtastic	🧰	The off-grid text mesh whose channel chat gives Talk its shape.	MoonTalk
MONSOONO / Flavourdynamics	🧑	The Praxis effect.	Praxis
mplayer-colorlight	🧰	The original reverse engineering of the ColorLight receiving cards.	PanelCard
MQTT	📜	The OASIS publish-subscribe protocol, 3.1.1, that home automation speaks.	MqttPacket.h
mrcodetastic	🧑	ESP32 HUB75 DMA.	Hub75, Hub75Slots.h
MycilaSafeBoot	🧰	Mathieu Carbou's safeboot, with Tasmota's the pattern behind MoonBase.	moonbase_main.cpp
NDI	📜	NewTek and Vizrt's video-over-network protocol.	Ndi
NEC	📜	The infrared protocol consumer remotes speak.	Infrared
NetMindz	🧑	Will Tatam: WLED audio sync, and the statistics work.	Audio, WLEDAudioSyncPacket.h
ObjectFLED	🧰	Parallel WS2812 output on the Teensy 4 by DMA to a GPIO port.	ParallelLed, GpioDmaPeripheral.h
OctoWS2811	🧰	Paul Stoffregen's parallel WS2812 library for the Teensy, timer-driven DMA.	ParallelLed, GpioDmaPeripheral.h
Pac-Man	🎨	Namco's 1980 arcade game.	Pacman
Philips Hue	🏢	The smart-light bridge and its local REST API.	Hue
Piper	🧰	OHF-Voice's offline text-to-speech that narrates the documentation clips, the voice you hear, with voice models from rhasspy. GPL, and used as a tool rather than linked: MoonTube calls it to render an audio track.	mtvoiceover.py
Polar coordinates	🧮	A point as an angle and a radius.	CarLights, Pinwheel, PolarNoise, Ring, Rings241, Wheel
Pong	🎨	Atari's 1972 arcade game.	Pong
Quindor / QuinLED	🧑🏢	The devices much of this runs on.
raster-fonts	🧰	The public bitmap console fonts the text effects draw with.	fonts.h
rhasspy	🧰	The piper-voices models Piper speaks with.	mtvoiceover.py
Robert Bridson / Curl noise	🧑🧮	Curl noise, SIGGRAPH 2007.	Nebula
RobWomp / wompslab	🧑	HUB75 drivers, and Linux on NanoPi and Pi 5.	Hub75
Rotation matrix	🧮	A rotation as a matrix product.	Rotate
RTP	📜	The RTP payload format for H.264, RFC 6184: how a frame is cut into packets.	Rtsp
RTSP	📜	The Real Time Streaming Protocol, RFC 2326: a player pulls a live stream.	Rtsp
Semi-implicit Euler	🧮	The integration the particle kernel runs on: velocity from the forces, then position from the new velocity.	particles.h
Space Invaders	🎨	Taito's 1978 arcade game.	SpaceInvaders
Stefan Petrick	🧑	The shader vocabulary of the LED world. Its generative fields come from Animartrix, FunkyNoise and ColorTrails. Aurora, PolarNoise, Tunnel and Trails sit in that tradition, written on the published algorithms underneath.	Aurora, ColorTrails, Nebula, PolarNoise, Trails, Tunnel
Sutaburosu	🧑	The fixed-point canvas demos.	FixedPoint
Sébastien Truchet / Truchet tiles	🧑🧮	The tiling, revived by Cyril Smith in 1987.	Truchet
Sören / LostHope	🧑	The MoonHub75 board, and the web installer.	Hub75
Tasmota	🧰	With MycilaSafeBoot, the safeboot pattern behind MoonBase, our from-scratch minimal take on it.	moonbase_main.cpp
toggledbits	🧑	Patrick Rigney: MatrixFireFast, the 2D fire the Fire effect adapts.	Fire
Transpose	🧮	Rows becoming columns.	Transpose
troyhacks	🧑	Reworked the WLED-MM audio DSP onto Espressif's esp-dsp FFT, the same choice AudioService makes, and WLED-MM's Art-Net, WLED effects, and P4 tuning.	Audio, FlyingToasters, GEQ3D, HumanSizedCube, NetworkReceive, NetworkSend, PaintBrush, ParallelLed, RippleXZ, TorontoBarGourds
Waveshare	🏢	The ESP32-S3 RGB Matrix board and its HUB75 pin map.	Hub75
wladi / myhome-control	🧑🏢	Designer of the MHC-WLED ESP32-P4 shield, and the source of the pinout details that got its line-in audio working.	Audio
WLED	🧰	MoonLight is born out of WLED and takes the usermod idea further, where everything is a module. A MoonLight device also acts as a WLED device and talks to WLED devices.	Plasma, RmtLed, Spectrum, WledPacket.h
WLED-MM	🧰	The MoonModules fork of WLED, which MoonLight is born out of with WLED.
WS2812 / WS2811 / SK6812	📜	The LED timing specs, from the datasheets.	LedDriverConfig.h
Xiaolin Wu	🧮	Anti-aliased lines.	draw.h
Yves Bazin / hpwit	🧑	The clockless I2S, RMT and Parlio driver techniques, the virtual driver and its expander board, and the ESPLiveScript engine behind MoonLive.	MoonLive, ParallelLed, RmtLed, I80Peripheral.h, MoonI80Peripheral.h, ParallelSlots.h, ParlioPeripheral.h