expal(3)

✨ expal(3) ✨

okay so bestie, we're in the Allegro manual and today's main character is expal — it's all about palette effects and color cycling in the Allegro game programming library. 🎨💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

Example expal

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically this program is a little demo of how to manipulate the palette, and it's giving "I learned graphics programming and it was cute". 🦋

it draws a bunch of concentric circles onto the screen, and then it animates them by cycling the palette. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap. ✨

like, the circles don't even move — the colors do. the way that a palette cycle can make a static image look alive is honestly iconic and i'm obsessed. 👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these next, fr fr:

• END_OF_MAIN(3)
• PALETTE(3)
• RGB(3)
• SCREEN_H(3)
• SCREEN_W(3)
• acquire_screen(3)
• allegro_error(3)
• allegro_init(3)
• allegro_message(3)
• black_palette(3)
• circlefill(3)
• install_keyboard(3)
• install_mouse(3)
• keypressed(3)
• release_screen(3)
• screen(3)
• set_gfx_mode(3)
• set_palette(3)
• show_mouse(3)

Allegro version 4.4.3 — mwah, that's the source and version right there, and this lil page is expal(3). ty for coming to my ted talk, go cycle a palette, slay 💅💖🫶