Yes, folks have done bitmaps before several ways, but all are currently going to require a fair bit of coding. I was able to find a few of the more notable threads by searching the forums for “bitmap”. The threads that jumped out to me are:
- Pixie’s work in Python for rendering images: Rendering images and extracting from a .GIF: Beating Heart Pattern - #6 by GeekMomProjects
- zranger1’s ExpanderVerse, for generating images on a computer. Processing is good at working with image data: ExpanderVerse: Processing, Output Expanders, Many, many LEDs
What 3D software do you work in primarily?