Blinkenlights Movie English

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A *.blm file consists of a header and the data in the body are describing at what time which lamp has to be switched on. Data in the header actually need no comments (example: LittleLights Intro):

# Blinkenlights Movie 18x8	// file format
# name = LittleLights	// name of the movie
# description = [LittleLights Intro	// additional description
# creator = Blinkenpaint 2.4	// name of the editor for creating the movie
# author = ST	// author
# width = 18	// with in pixels
# height = 8	// hight in pixels
# loop = no	// loop: yes or no?
# duration = 27450	// duration in milliseconds

The body contains several pictures, where a 1 stands for a switched-on lamp and a 0 for a lamp which is switched off. The number before the @ assigns the duration of showing this picture in milliseconds.

@500 000000000000000000 000000011100000000 000000100010000000 000000000110000000 000000001100000000 000000000110000000 000000100010000000 000000011100000000

@100 000000000000000000 000000100100100000 000000010101000000 000000001110000000 000111111111111000 000000001110000000 000000010101000000 000000100100100000

@1000 011111111000000000 100010100100000000 100001111111111100 100001111111101110 100010100100011100 011111111000000100 000000000000011010 000000000000101001

With the BlinkenPlus firmware, this format can also be used for multicolor animations. In this case, there are as many ones or zeros per pixel as there are color channels. The length of each line therefore increases to (image width in pixels) * (number of color channels).