Graphics and Animation
Parts 1
Where we came from
A brief history
Hyper Text Markup Language
Academic, Scientific
Documents & Publications
VRML
Java Applet
Macromedia Adobe Flash
Microsoft Silverlight
Browser Plugins
Application Execution
Operating System (apis)
Browser (apis)
Hardware (is)
HTML
JavaScript
CSS
Browser Plugins
Flash
Application Execution
Operating System
Browser
Hardware
HTML
JavaScript
CSS
+ Graphics APIs
Raster
Graphics defined by pixel coordinates and color values
photographs, video, image manipulation, drawing,
jpeg, gif, png, bmp
Vector
Graphics defined by shapes, paths
Figures, charts, illustrations
svg, ai, eps, pdf
Raster
Vector
Raster
Canvas API
Images
Video
Vector
SVG
Fonts
What are the "practical" uses of canvas?
- Graphics
- Image manipulation
- Complex animation
- Image cropping, watermarking
- Graphical data modeling
- Charts, Graphs, visualizations
Canvas in the DOM
<canvas></canvas>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvas">No Canvas Support!</canvas>
Canvas Under the Hood
A visual representation of an array of pixel values
[255, 0, 0, 255]
R
G
B
A
1
1
Canvas Under the Hood
A visual representation of an array of pixel values
[255,0,0,255,0,255,0,255,0,0,255,255,0,0,0,255]
2
2
Red
Black
Blue
Green
Canvas Context
const canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
const context = canvas.getContext('2d');Canvas
Context
Canvas Context API
fillRect()
lineTo()
stokeArc()
drawImage()
rotate()
fillText()
translate()
rect()
fill()
ellipse()
bezierCurve()
addHitRegion()
arc()
arcTo()
asyncDrawXULElement()
beginPath()
bezierCurveTo()
clearHitRegions()
clearRect()
clip()
closePath()
createImageData()
createLinearGradient()
createPattern()
createRadialGradient()
drawFocusIfNeeded()
drawImage()
drawWidgetAsOnScreen()
drawWindow()
ellipse()
fill()
fillRect()
fillText()
getImageData()
getLineDash()
isPointInPath()
....
Clear?
(Watermarking images example)
Thanks!
Graphics and Animation
By Michael Jasper
