I’ve been playing with my PixelBlaze and a couple of 8x8 matrices this afternoon. I was getting the same issue as @Kenzillla. For me, changing line 100 from this:
if (renderBuffer[row][col]) hsv(0.07, 0.5, 1) // warm white
to this:
if (renderBuffer[row][col])
hsv(0.07, 0.5, 1) // warm white
else
hsv(0, 0, 0)
Did the trick! Hope this helps.