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James Brown

This display works by spinning a matrix display rapidly about a vertical axis, lighting up each LED as it passes through part of a 3D image. The way you update the displays has a big impact on the quality of the image.
In this gif, each dot represents a column of LEDs - we're looking at the device from above. Here the panel is treated like a 2D display which just happens to be moving. Each scan line is repeatedly visited in turn, sweeping out a set of slices where the image can be displayed.