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The Canvas interface, part of the Canvas API, provides the 2D rendering context for the drawing surface of a element. It is used for drawing shapes, text, images, and other objects using JavaScript.

Friday, April 28, 2023

JavaScript Canvas Sine Wave

The code below generates a sine wave with a specified amplitude, frequency, and phase. The wave is drawn on the…

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Canvas – A Simple Drawing Application

This is a simple drawing application that allows the user to select a colour and thickness for their brush and…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Animation

Making an animation from an element on an HTML5 Canvas is easy enough. To do this, a timer is set that…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Interactive Shapes

If you draw a red square on a Canvas using the stroke() or fill() method, the square becomes nothing more…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Inserting Images and Text

You can optimize text input by storing the desired text in an image file and then displaying it on the…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Shadows and Gradient Fill

This is a Canvas programming introductory series: So far, we’ve been using solid colors to draw and fill elements on…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Transforms and Transparency

Transform is a drawing technique that allows you to move the coordinate system of the Canvas using JavaScript.

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: An Awesome Introduction

The ID attribute gives this Canvas the unique name required for it to be identified by JavaScript code and set…

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Canvas: Strange, Creepy Cables

A while ago I was playing with some basic trees drawn in Canvas using JavaScript. The longer I played, the…

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Canvas: Pathfinding

Breadth First Search (BFS) Algorithm Below is a Breadth First Search implementation using Canvas and Vanilla JavaScript. This article is…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Circles & Optical Illusions

Here is another experiment in my Canvas series. This time, I have 2 sets of circles being generated, one set…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: 2D Waves

This is the second Canvas visualization I’m experimenting with. The first one was a Julia fractal animation. This article is…

Monday, July 8, 2024

Canvas: Julia Fractal Animation

While working on my Canvas Bots project, I experimented a lot with Canvas generative art. There’s a lot of potential…

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Canvas JS: Big Ball of Particles

For a while now, I had this animated, constantly exploding ball of particles on one of my landing pages. Built…

Monday, May 16, 2022

How to Draw on Canvas and Save the Result Using Vanilla JavaScript

This was part of a complex drawing project, which is not relevant right now. The idea was to have a…