I tried square, triangular and sine wave signals last week, but no noticeable difference in flickering was seen, only the intensity varied.
...but those were not current wavefroms. I only measured the current on the square wave signal.
You could add to you to-do list on a next video, the scoping of the current flowing through a LED when driven by an all-positive triangular voltage waveform. I'm mentioning it only because it would be educational to other members here. ...I could use an ad8032 rail-to-rail op-amp as in your diag-1 or diag-2 setup.
Yes, that op-amp will work but I think it will need some kind of help (buffer) at its output (like in Diag.2 or Diag.3) because it is not strong enough to light a big LED. BTW: That 1Ω CSR programs the voltage-to-current converter to output 1A per 1V input. You can change that if you want, e.g. a 10Ω CSR will make it output 100mA per 1V. Possibly a N-ch MOSFET can be used in place of the NPN BJT emitter follower buffer ...possibly. BONUS RANT: Also, as usual with any current sourcing circuits, an "open circuit" situation (e.g. when the LED becomes disconnected) is a damaging condition to such circuit (e.g. it will blow the BJT emitter follower), just like a "short circuit" situation is a damaging condition to any voltage sourcing circuits. In other words: current sources don't like to be opened and voltage sources don't like to be shorted.
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