al_color_xyy(3alleg5)

💖 al_color_xyy — Allegro 5 API 💖

okay bestie, so this page is al_color_xyy(3alleg5) from the Allegro reference manual, and it's genuinely so cute. sit down, grab a boba, let's talk color spaces 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

al_color_xyy — the Allegro 5 API function that hands you a color straight out of the xyY color space. iykyk 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro_color.h>

ALLEGRO_COLOR al_color_xyy(float x, float y, float y2)

like, three floats go in, one ALLEGRO_COLOR comes out. no cap. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this function returns an ALLEGRO_COLOR(3alleg5) structure built from xyY values. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

the tea on the Y component though: in the xyY color space, Y is literally the exact same Y you'd find in XYZ. same girl, different font. 👑

but the x and y values? those are computed from XYZ like this, and you're gonna want to screenshot this fr fr:

x = X / (X + Y + Z)
y = Y / (X + Y + Z)

so x and y are just the XYZ components normalized by their sum, periodt. that's the whole math. iconic behavior honestly 🌈

lowkey important: the third parameter in the signature is named y2, not y — that's not a typo, that's just how it's written, so don't come for it 💀

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

available since version 5.2.3 — a classic, a legend, a main character 🌟

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• al_color_xyy_to_rgb(3alleg5) — the reverse glow-up, xyY ➡️ rgb 💫
• al_color_rgb_to_xyy(3alleg5) — and the other direction, rgb ➡️ xyY 🎀

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that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it up 🍓 this was brought to you by the Allegro reference manual, home of al_color_xyy(3alleg5) — no dates on this one, just vibes ✨💖🦋