Let's say I have a canvas with stuff on it, and I want to carve an ellipse in it's center, whose all of the pixels have an alpha of 0, to let everything behind the canvas to pass through, and given that previously the area now filled by the ellipse was something else, and said that, for performance reasons, I don't want to use putImageData, how would I do so?
And if there isn't a way, how would I carve an ellipse using putImageData?
Just to make it clear: I don't want to draw the html elements on the canvas, I want them to simply be in html behind it
you can use context.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-out' after you draw the frame to fill the clipped shape(s).
example: http://jsfiddle.net/rlemon/6nEpc/
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I have a polygon object (say a car) drawn inside a HTML5 canvas with help of methods moveTo and lineTo. I want to repeatedly draw that object at different positions in the canvas (simulating a moving object). My problem is that the previous drawn object is not getting cleared. Instead, multiple images are drawn on the canvas. How can I fix this issue?
You have to clear the canvas at the start of every draw frame
context.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
Canvases are just arrays of pixels, they know nothing of the shapes you have drawn.
There are animation tricks that used to be used on bitmapped displays (e.g. "xor drawing") that can be used to remove the old shape before you draw the new one, but on modern machines it's generally far simpler (and perfectly fast) to just erase the canvas and start again for each frame.
Given your comments to other answers, I'd suggest just using two Canvases - one for the static background and one for the car. If the background image is static it could even be an <img> element instead of a Canvas.
If the car image is static you could also just draw that once, and then use CSS positioning to set its position relative to the background for each frame.
suppose your shape is car then you first have to assign a new graphic like:
car.graphics = new createjs.Graphics();
car.graphics
.setStrokeStyle(1)
.beginStroke("#000000")
.moveTo()
.lineTo()
.lineTo()
I am trying to achieve grass like bend on a straight line created by using Cubic bezier curve.I have created a straight line using Bezier curve and now i want to bend it from top.But the problem I am facing is I am not able to do it dynamically.The moment I use mousemove for creating the bend,series of curves appear giving the canvas a paint like look which is somthing I dont want.I just want a single curved line.My question is how do I clear the previous lines that have been drawn and restore the latest bended curve??
My CODE:here is my code if you want to have a look at it
Create two canvases stacked on top of each other:
The first one containing the static content, the other only the dynamic content.
This way you will only need to be concerned about clearing the area the grass was drawn in (and this is much faster too as there is no need to redraw static all the time).
Place the two canvases inside a div which have position set to relative, then place the canvases using position set to absolute.
Now you can make a function to draw the static content (you will need to redraw it if the browser window gets resized etc.).
Record the area the grass is drawn within and clear only this (for each grass) in the next frame.
If this last is too complicated, just use a simple clear on the "dynamic" canvas:
ctxDyn.clear(0, 0, canvasDyn.width, canvasDyn.height);
This will also preserve transparency of this canvas, or "layer" if you like.
Use requestAnimationFrame to do the actual animation.
var isPlaying = true;
function animate() {
ctxDyn.clear(0, 0, canvasDyn.width, canvasDyn.height);
drawGrass(); //function to draw the actual grass
if (isPlaying) requestAnimationFrame(animate);
}
animate(); // start
The isPlaying is a flag you can toggle with a button on screen or something similar, to be able to stop the animation. See the link for requestAnimationFrame on how to make this cross-browser as this is still a "young" implementation.
dynCtx and dynCanvas can of course be called what you want.
You need to erase the current contents of the canvas before redrawing your updated "grass". This would involve redrawing everything else that is "static" on the canvas. For example:
function redraw() {
// Erase the current contents
ctx.fillStyle = 'white';
ctx.fill(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
// Draw the stuff that does not change from frame to frame
drawStaticContent();
// Draw the dynamic content
drawGrass();
}
In your mousemove event, update your grass curve information, then 'redraw'.
So I know that context.clearRect makes pixels transparent, but I'm wondering, is there a function to make pixels translucent?
For example, say I have a canvas with these colors (fourth one in each color is alpha):
#ffff #feef #abff
#5f6f #000f #ffff
Running clearRect would resolve into this (or something, just make them all transparent):
#fff0 #fee0 #abf0
#5f60 #0000 #fff0
I want to remove opacity, but not make it transparent (kind of like globalAlpha for clearRect), so that it can end up like this (lets say I set the globalAlpha equivalent to 0.5):
#fff8 #fee8 #abf8
#5f68 #0008 #fff8
Is this possible? Or would it be simpler just to draw everything on an off-screen canvas, then draw that canvas (with globalAlpha set) on an on-screen one?
Let me know if this isn't clear in any way.
The answer above gets the job done, however getImageData is super slow and if you have a lot of other stuff going on it will slow down your animation immensely. If you create a second off screen canvas element you can set its global alpha to .9 and shuffle them back and forth and get the same effect with much greater speed.
context2.clearRect(0,0,width,height);
context2.globalAlpha = .9;
context2.drawImage(canvas1,0,0);
context1.clearRect(0,0,width,height);
context1.drawImage(canvas2,0,0);
context1.the rest of the drawing that you are doing goes here.
I just tried to figure this out too, and I've decided to count through the pixels, setting the alpha channel of each one manually. This is a bit more work, because I can't just cover the entire canvas with a rect, but it's working so far.
I'm doing this so that I can set a background image for the webpage and put my canvas animation over it, without having to draw the background in the canvas element.
var oldArray = context.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
//count through only the alpha pixels
for(var d=3;d<oldArray.data.length;d+=4){
//dim it with some feedback, I'm using .9
oldArray.data[d] = Math.floor(oldArray.data[d]*.9);
}
sw.context.putImageData(oldArray,0,0);
I would like to export my canvas onto a PDF and only render the elements added to the canvas. For example:
I have this canvas, with a background-image set to it.
http://i49.tinypic.com/n7lv.png
This is my result when I render it to PDF (using Bytescout library)
http://i50.tinypic.com/346ud7m.png
This is how I want it to end up as:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2q1s9hv.png
Meaning, I want it to end up with no rounded corners, without the background image. The canvas is done using the fabric framework. My idea is to get all the elements added to the canvas, except background image, then render the PDF from there. Any guidelines? Is that the way to go?
You simply redraw the entire scene, omitting the parts you don't want to write to a PDF.
If you don't feel like keeping track of everything to redraw, then create a second, in-memory canvas (document.createElement('canvas')) and do every drawing operation to that canvas instead of your normal one, then draw that canvas onto your normal one as the user edits instead of drawing directly onto your normal canvas.
The old way:
// First you round the corners permanently by making a clipping region:
ctx.roundedRect(etc)
ctx.clip();
//then a user draws something onto normal canvas, like an image
ctx.drawImage(myImage, 0, 0);
The new way:
// make a hidden canvas:
var hiddenCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var hCtx = hiddenCanvas.getContext('2d');
// First you round the corners permanently by making a clipping region:
ctx.roundedRect(etc)
ctx.clip();
//then a user draws something onto HIDDEN canvas, like an image
// This image never gets its corners cut
hCtx.drawImage(myImage, 0, 0);
// Then you draw the hidden canvas onto your normal one:
ctx.drawImage(hiddenCanvas, 0, 0);
When its time to print, you use your hidden canvas, which does not have a background image and does not have clipped corners.
I am writing a colouring game for small children, where I have a black and white image shown on a canvas initially, and as the user moves the drawing tool (mouse) over the canvas, the black and white surface gets over-painted with the colour information from the corresponding coloured image.
In particular, on every mouse move I need to copy a circular area from the coloured image to my canvas. The edge of the circle should be a little blurry to better immitate the qualities of a real drawing tool.
The question is how to accomplish this?
One way I see is to use a clipping region, but this approach does not let me have blurry edges. Or does it?
So I was thinking about using an alpha mask to do that and copy only pixels that correspond to the pixels in the mask that have non zero alpha. Is it feasible?
My suggestion is to have your drawable canvas in front of the coloured image you wish to reveal. (You could use your coloured image as a CSS background image for the canvas.)
Initially have the canvas containing the black and white image with 100% opacity. Then, when you draw, actually erase the contents of the canvas to show the image behind.
Like this:
var pos_x, pos_y, circle_radius; // initialise these appropriately
context.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-out';
context.fillStyle = "rgba(0,0,0, 1.0)";
// And "draw" a circle (actually erase it to reveal the background image)
context.beginPath();
context.arc(pos_x, pos_y, circle_radius, 0, Math.PI*2);
context.fill();
I would probably use multiple clipping regions with varying alpha (one dab for each) to mimic the effect you are after. Render the low opacity one first (paste using drawImage) and render the rest after that till you reach alpha=1.0.
Have you considered using radial gradients that go from an opaque color to a fully transparent one?
Here is a demo from Mozilla. The circles are drawn the way you need. - https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/canvas-tutorial/4_10_canvas_radialgradient.html