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Bad Apple MV

Playback of complete Bad Apple!! MV on a 64x48 LED array @ 30FPS. This is a tech demo more than anything, expect significant delay after inserting this assembly in your sub-editor workspace. Expect an even longer delay when you launch into game mode. I really don't recommend adding this assembly into an existing sub/station.
I am able to achieve smooth playback on my machine but YMMV depending on your setup

The item assembly was created using custom code. The basic idea is making a circuit which performs the following operations:

• Extract one frame worth of data from the bitmap array
  
• Feed the data into each pixel block using a relay chain
  
• Each pixel's associated regex block extracts its relevant bit
  
• The light state is toggled based on this pixel bit data

Pixel data is compacted in to groups of 4; the bits are mapped to lower nibble of ASCII range "8-?". Staying within the printable character range is important as the mod cannot be imported otherwise (due to the XML deserialization errors).

Bitmap data for playback is available here:
https://github.com/muenzuka-code/badapple-64x48-bitmap

Kwogger's ffbaro was used as a reference for the XML template, which I highly recommend checking out:
https://github.com/kwogger/ffbaropy