I'm an Arduino newb, so go easy on me. :) I have an Arduino Uno with a Grove Base Shield and a Grove LED Strip Driver. I have Superlight strip LEDs. I'm using some of the example code and it seems ...

Bucking the downward trend [HansLuijten] provides an astoundingly thorough set of LED strip patterns in his comprehensive post titled Arduino LED strip effects.

Here is an artistic Arduino project for the fun-minded. The circuit is an Arduino RGB LED controller running on a sweet ‘n’ simple code,but with a little hardware surprise outside the Arduino board.

Off the shelf RGB colour pickers allowing you to extract and objects RGB values can range from a few hundred dollars to thousands depending on your needs.