Grains of Sand and Morphing Clock added

[Louis]

Hi Andreas,

Nice additions! This year I’ve also been working on adding support for large fonts:

Adafruit_GFX Compatible Layers - Modern Font Support coming to SmartMatrix Library 4.0

Adding support for larger fonts has been a popular feature request for years, and I never took on the project as I thought it might be a difficult project. Turns out I was right, but now at least most of the work is done, and you can now run sketches like this using the “teensy4” branch, and this will be coming in the upcoming SmartMatrix Library 4.0 release. There is now a new SMLayerBackgroundGFX layer (equivalent to SMLayerBackground) and new SMLayerGFXMono layer (equivalent to…

If you have your code up on GitHub, you can send a link to it, so I can see your changes and see if it’s something I want to include in SmartMatrix Library. The new Adafruit_GFX layers already include a scaling option for their basic font, and large font options that don’t require scaling, so I’m not sure that a new scaling feature for the old graphics code will be that useful after SmartMatrix Library 4.0 is released. Thank you for sharing though!