Palette Animation
Volume Number: 4
Issue Number: 5
Column Tag: Macintosh II
By Steven C. Sheets, Contributing Editor
PalFun: an Example of Palette Manipulation
Last month’s column explained the basics of the Palette Manager, the new Toolbox
calls designed to handle the color environment of the Mac //. To fully understand this
month’s column, the reader will have to have either read the previous article and/or
have worked with the Palette Manager on his own. Hopefully any new ideas/examples
will be explained this month, but the reader must have a certain level of knowledge of
Macintosh // Color to start with (this author hates 2-part TV Shows which spend most
of the second part rehashing the events of the first half). This month’s article will
explain the idea of Palette Animation, or how to directly manipulate colors in the
Palette to change shapes on the Macintosh // screen. The first portion of this article
will describe the concepts involved in Palette Animation. The second section will
describe special effect techniques that can be used with Palette Animation. The last
section is an explanation of this month’s sample program, PalFun.
Palette Animation: Changing the Color Environment
Imagine a sample Macintosh // screen, using the information described last