Ambient Aquarium

An animated habitat with controls for feeding, lighting, bubbles, pause and sound. The view follows the RTC phase.

Run it

Build examples with devenv shell -- lcom-ng-build, then:

lcom-ng run -- build/examples/ambient_aquarium

Controls

• Space or P: pause or resume. F: feed. L: cycle lighting. A: follow the clock.
• 1-4: dawn, day, sunset, night. B: bubbles. M or S: sound. R: reset.
• F1: help. The control bar also supports mouse clicks.

In the app

A new morningDawn uses cool soft light; 1 selects this phase.

A living desktop aquarium2 selects daylight. Fish, plants and bubbles keep moving.

Follow the foodClick the water to scatter food and watch fish gather.

Evening arrives3 selects the warm sunset palette.

After dark4 selects night. A returns lighting to the real clock.

A moment of stillnessSpace pauses motion without resetting the habitat.

Only the fishHide bubbles and mute sound with B and M.

A guide to the habitatF1 opens the control guide while fish continue swimming.

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A new morning · Dawn uses cool soft light; 1 selects this phase.

What it demonstrates

Deterministic animation, RTC-driven color changes, mouse targets, PIT updates and optional audio.

Source: examples/ambient_aquarium.c.

Refresh captures with the screenshot workflow.