James Brown on Nostr: A quirk of these LED matrix panels is that they simultaneously update two rows at ...

A quirk of these LED matrix panels is that they simultaneously update two rows at once, separated by half the panel. So on a 64x64 panel, you update rows 0 & 32, 1 & 33, 2 & 34 etc.
However, if you want to sweep one around an axis, you ideally want to update the outer LEDs at a faster rate than the inner ones, and this layout prevents that.